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More Guns, Less Crime
By JASON L. RILEY
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
A
new FBI report says that violent crime continues to fall nationwide,
which might annoy liberals because gun purchases continue to rise.
In
the first six months of 2013, murders fell by nearly 7 percent,
compared with the same period in 2012. Aggravated assaults fell by 6.6
percent, and robberies are down 1.8 percent. "All of the offenses in the
violent crime category—murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible
rape, aggravated assault, and robbery—showed decreases when data from
the first six months of 2013 were compared with data from the first six
months of 2012," according to the FBI. Overall, violent crime in the
U.S. fell by 5.4 percent. Burglaries, larceny and auto thefts also
decreased.
The
left likes to link violent crime to the proliferation of guns in the
country, so it's worth noting that the crime reductions described in the
FBI report correlate with a steady increase in firearm sales. "Gun
records checks, fueled by a post-Newtown boom of gun sales, hit a new
high in 2013, and industry analysts expect ammunition to be the big
seller this year as consumers catch up to all of those firearms
purchases," reported the Washington Times last month. "More than 21
million applications were run through the National Instant Criminal
Background Check System last year, marking nearly an 8 percent increase
and the 11th straight year that the number has risen."
It's
also worth noting that gun-ownership rates in the Midwest (39 percent)
and South (50 percent) far exceed gun-ownership rates in the Northeast
(22 percent), yet violent crime is down more in the Midwest and South
than it is in the Northeast, according to the FBI statistics. And rural
areas, where gun-ownership rates also are higher than average, saw a
larger reduction in violent crime that metropolitan areas, where
gun-ownership rates are lower than average.
Not
that gun-control zealots, who are so certain of a causal link between
firearms and violent crime rates, care about such details.
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