The Left wants you to be afraid of guns and crime. Probably others as well. Fear makes it easy to control people. Disarming people makes it easy to control them. Deflating Another Gun Control Bogeyman
First of all, the term "Gun Violence" is in itself a problem.
Violence is violence regardless of the weapon or method used.
Gun violence is a handy bogeyman for gun control and other groups advancing similar agenda. By lumping homicides, suicides, and accidents together, gun grabbers of every stripe can use this family-sized phantasm to alarm the public.
There is a problem of course. "Gun crime" of all kinds has been going down. Even with the recent surge, as Democrats wage war on Police and Law & Order.
FBI statistics for the 65 years from 1960 to 2024 prove this. The decade from 2010 to 2019 had a lower average murder rate than any comparable period going back to the last year of Eisenhower’s term. In fact, the 2010-2019 average was 12% lower than in the previous decade.
COVID-19 and widespread civil unrest in 2020 produced a sharp spike in the rate that peaked in 2021. However, the rate fell in 2022 and has continued to fall.
Click thru for the details. (Hat tip to MaddMedic at Freedom Is Just Another Word…)
Anti-gun is purely visceral emotion. The recitation of facts is as if speaking an unknown language.
ReplyDeleteIf perchance a true believer should glom on to a recognizeable word of fact, their immediate response is likely to be, But what about ...? They will then recite some one off obscure moment in time when the absence of a firearm saved a girl and her dog.