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Gun sales up, deaths and injuries way down


Subdeacon Joe

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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 to
gun violence incidents in the media has caused most Americans to be
unaware 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 found
that 56 percent believed gun-related crime is higher, 26 percent
believed 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 less
likely to become crime victims, they were more likely to believe gun
crime had increased in recent years. On the other hand, men, who were
more likely to become victims, were more likely know that the gun rate
had dropped.


Those gun crime rates certainly aren’t diminishing for lack of
supply…at least not for law-abiding legal buyers. Last December, the FBI
recorded a record number of 2.78 million background checks
for purchases that month, surpassing a 2.01 million mark set the month
before by about 39 percent. That December 2012 figure, in turn, was up
49 percent from a previous record on that month the year before. FBI
checks for all of 2012 totaled 19.6 million, an annual record, and an
increase of 19 percent over 2011.


Firearms sellers can thank the gun-control legislation lobbies for
much of this business windfall. Marked demand increases have been
witnessed over the past five years thanks to the 2008 and 2012 elections
of U.S. history’s most successful, if unintentional, gun salesman as
president. The firearms market got a huge added boost after the tragic
shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut
activated a renewed legislative frenzy.

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