Subdeacon Joe Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/05/14/disarming-realities-as-gun-sales-soar-gun-crimes-plummet/ Pew researchers observed that the huge amount of attention devoted togun violence incidents in the media has caused most Americans to beunaware that gun crime is “strikingly down” from 20 years ago. In fact, gun-related homicides in the late 2000s were “equal to those not seen since the early 1960s.” Yet their survey foundthat 56 percent believed gun-related crime is higher, 26 percentbelieved it stayed about the same, and 6 percent didn’t know. Only 12 percent of those polled thought it was lower. The Pew survey found that while women and elderly were actually lesslikely to become crime victims, they were more likely to believe guncrime had increased in recent years. On the other hand, men, who weremore likely to become victims, were more likely know that the gun ratehad dropped. Those gun crime rates certainly aren’t diminishing for lack ofsupply…at least not for law-abiding legal buyers. Last December, the FBIrecorded a record number of 2.78 million background checksfor purchases that month, surpassing a 2.01 million mark set the monthbefore by about 39 percent. That December 2012 figure, in turn, was up49 percent from a previous record on that month the year before. FBIchecks for all of 2012 totaled 19.6 million, an annual record, and anincrease of 19 percent over 2011. Firearms sellers can thank the gun-control legislation lobbies formuch of this business windfall. Marked demand increases have beenwitnessed over the past five years thanks to the 2008 and 2012 electionsof U.S. history’s most successful, if unintentional, gun salesman aspresident. The firearms market got a huge added boost after the tragicshootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticutactivated a renewed legislative frenzy. Link to comment
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