170 million guns purchased, crime drops by half
More guns, less crime: According to federal government data Americans have purchased more than 170 million guns since 1991, and in that time violent crime has dropped 51 percent.
This evidence strongly suggests that the presence of guns in the hands of honest Americans helps to reduce violence. And while there are many factors contributing to the fall in crime, many which have nothing to do with the purchase of guns by Americans, the statistics here should not be ignored. Gun control advocates always argue that if gun limits are reduced, a blood-bath will follow. This claim has always been proven false, and these statistics do so again.
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More guns, less crime: According to federal government data Americans have purchased more than 170 million guns since 1991, and in that time violent crime has dropped 51 percent.
This evidence strongly suggests that the presence of guns in the hands of honest Americans helps to reduce violence. And while there are many factors contributing to the fall in crime, many which have nothing to do with the purchase of guns by Americans, the statistics here should not be ignored. Gun control advocates always argue that if gun limits are reduced, a blood-bath will follow. This claim has always been proven false, and these statistics do so again.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
When I served in the Navy, in Afghanistan, on FOB Wilson, everyone was armed except the Afghan National Army. Everyone inside the base behaved because everyone was armed. The only shooters were the Taliban, outside the base, of course.
Common sense and experience shows armed lawful citizens makes for good citizens. The 2nd Amendment is a God given right to self defense. God given, not government or politician given right to the citizens.
None of the commissioned officers or non commissioned officers like me, that I know, believe otherwise. And none of us would follow an unlawful order to forcibly unarm the citizens we serve.
Crime is a highly localized phenomena with clearly defined demographic overtones. Hows that for waltzing thru a minefield with no evident micro-aggressions.
The gun issue is ultra-hot. Maybe best for other sites to handle, so we can concentrate our talks elsewhere. Just saying.
And I am a raving conservative gun nut – who loves science.
Sorry, but the firearm issue is just as much a part of the ongoing conversation as anything else related to politics and the Constitution. Understanding the issue PROPERLY is fundamental to understanding the Constitution. “Crime” is a part of the conversation but the firearm issues goes even further, much, much further.
The firearm issue is not so much “ultra hot” as it is ultra fundamental. Push it aside and only discuss it in the “appropriate” venues and you diminish and push the entire Constitution aside, it does not exist without it. So the conversation belongs here and it belongs everywhere where such things are discussed.
Space, science, physics, politics, human nature, capitalism, any ism, its all interconnected, nothing should be off the table.
Come on now! You know exactly what I meant by it here. I suspect we are all shooters here.