Saturday, July 10, 2010

FBI Data Again Shows More Guns = Less Crime

However, on Monday the FBI released crime statistics <http://www.ilaalerts.org/UM/T.asp?A1.2.6527.9.3265949>  that should cause the applauding anti-gunners to sit on their hands. The statistics indicate that between 2008 and 2009, as gun sales soared, the number of murders in our country decreased 7.2 percent.  That amounts to about an 8.2 percent decrease in the per capita murder rate, after the increase in our nation's legal and illegal population is taken into account. And it translates into about a 10.5 percent decrease in the murder rate between 2004, when the ban expired, and the end of 2009. And finally, it means that in 2009 our nation's murder rate fell to a 45-year low.

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