AMERICANS BOUGHT 170 MILLION GUNS, VIOLENT CRIME FELL 51%

[Christians4LessGvt]

SHOCK: AS AMERICANS BOUGHT 170 MILLION GUNS,
VIOLENT CRIME FELL 51%

by AWR HAWKINS - 31 Aug 2015

On August 28, the NRA presented ATF and FBI data showing Americans have purchased "170 million new guns" since 1991, and violent crime has fallen "51 percent."

The NRA tweeted, "Since '91, Americans have acquired over 170 million new firearms and violent crimes have declined by 51%."

This information squares with the findings of a Congressional Research Service (CRS) study covering the slightly shorter period of time from 1994 to 2009. For those years, CRS found that Americans purchased approximately 118 million firearms, and the 1993 "firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide" rate of 6.6 per 100,000 fell to 3.6 per 100,000 by the year 2000. It eventually fell all the way to 3.2 per 100,000 in 2011.

That is more than a 50 percent reduction in "firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide."

Then, in 2009 the year the CRS study ended, Obama took office and gun sales began their climb to record levels, which made covering the gap between the 118 million guns that had been purchased by 2009 and the 170 million new guns, that Americans would own by 2015 an easy gap to bridge.

Breitbart News previously reported that there were 21,093,273 background checks for firearms in 2013 alone. And each of those checks were on buyers who could have legally purchased multiple firearms.

The overarching message is simple, more guns, less crime.

Americans have purchased 170 million new guns since 1991, and violent crime has decreased as gun ownership has increased.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/31/shock-as-americans-bought-170-million-guns-violent-crime-fell-51/

[sirs]

But....but.....more guns means more people get shot.  Of course most of them are the bad guys trying to do something bad, or a criminal already illegally using a gun in the commission of their crime.....but....more people get shot dammit

[Xavier_Onassis]

The ill named Breitbart is as always, full of shit. Breitbart is anything but Bright. It should be called Dimbart.

33,000 Americans doe of gun related causes every year.

In the UK, the number is around 50.

[sirs]

And in America, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Americans are saved with the use or even brandising of a gun, EVERY YEAR

And those weren't Breitbart's stats.....your beef is apparently with ATF and FBI data  Looking forward to you proclaiming how they're always full of AMBE

[Plane]

In the UK, the number is around 50.

  In the UK about seventy years ago they had 90% more firearms than they do now.

   Was the murder rate higher then or about the same?

   The prevalence of violence has a lot of factors involved , IF the availability of firearms is a positive rather than a negative factor , then it is a small factor that vanishes in the shadow of other factors.