Surprise, Surprise!
By Mitch Berg
I’m waiting for the first lefty/media (ptir) pundit to claim the “incongruity” between this story – violent crime is plummeting…:
Murders, rapes and other violent crimes dropped sharply in the United States in the first six months of 2011, continuing a downward trend that has lasted 4 1/2 years, the FBI reported on Monday.
The federal law enforcement agency said preliminary January-through-June figures showed the number of violent crimes declined 6.4 percent from the previous year, led by a 5.7 percent drop in murders and a 5.1 percent decrease in rapes.
In other violent crime categories, robberies declined 7.7 percent while aggravated assaults fell 5.9 percent.
The FBI’s regular statistical report did not give any reasons for the lower crimes nationwide. But the latest numbers provided further evidence of no crime spike coinciding with the tough economic conditions and high unemployment.
…and this bit here; gun sales are shattering all records this holiday season:
It’s the rise in female buyers that is perhaps most surprising – with more women buying guns than ever before, reported CBS Sacramento.
‘People are just coming in to protect themselves,’ an employee at TDS Guns in Rocklin told CBS Sacramento.
‘I think there’s just a lot of things going on in the world that are getting people thinking,’ the employee added.
The Firearms Dealers Association says the recent boom in gun purchases makes this the best holiday sales season in three years.
It’s not incongruous. In this case, correlation equals causation. Violent crime is dropping precisely because more law-abiding Real Americans are armed. Criminals are stupid and often addled, but they’re not usually overtly suicidal; as the wave of shall-issue laws spreads across the nation and as sales of guns to the law-abiding citizens obliterate all previous records, more and more of them are figuring out that their chances of ending up like this are growing faster than their odds of going to jail.
More and more it’s apparent; it should be considered the duty of every law-abiding American to own and be proficient with a firearm.
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December 20th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
The incidence in Great Britain of “hot” robberies (those where the homeowner is in the home), is far, far greater than in the U.S. Could it be because a US homeowner might have a lawful gun in their home? Ask a criminal.
December 20th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
“it should be considered the duty of every law-abiding American to own and be proficient with a firearm.”
Proficiency being defined as the ability to shoot the wings off of a fly at 100 yards! 😉
December 21st, 2011 at 3:34 am
Welfare (AFDC) reform was signed into law in 1995. That was fifteen to sixteen years ago.
December 21st, 2011 at 9:09 am
Don’t forget, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, a fact that the Left constantly bemoans. I say: every douche bag in jail is one less to worry about on the street.
December 21st, 2011 at 1:34 pm
“every douche bag in jail is one less to worry about on the street.”
Or in the voting booth!
December 21st, 2011 at 4:39 pm
“…every douche bag in jail is one less to worry about on the street.”
That’s all well and good, but keep in mind that costs about $50K per year per douchbag.
Strap ’em to a gurney, exsanguinate ’em ,and part ’em out, I say.