Lets peel out the murder by guns only number...and to be truly accurate, you need to localize those numbers to states/areas based on their gun laws. You will see the unarmed areas have the highest crime rates.
If the liberals are doing all this in the name of public safety, why don't they go on the rampage about knives which kill more people than guns do? Or drunk drivers? Even if you focus on guns only why go after military rifles when handguns are more commonly used?
Its not about guns, its about control.
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Originally Posted by Botnst
I assume the reason gun control advocates are motivated is to decrease the murder rate.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports show homicides dropped to 12,664 in 2011, the last year available. The murder rate has dropped from 9.3 per 100,000 in 1992 to 4.7 per 100,000 in 2011.
FBI — Table 1 |