Once again, the reality doesn't bear out the propaganda and the false headlines. Gun deaths are down and have been for over twenty years, but you wouldn't know that to listen to the screaming memes of media and Washington.
Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the
middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and
other crimes, two new studies of government data show.
Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center.
In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in
half. Other gun crimes fell even more sharply, paralleling a broader
drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns. Violent crime
dropped steeply during the 1990s and has fallen less dramatically since
the turn of the millennium.
The number of gun killings
dropped 39% between 1993 and 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics
reported in a separate report released Tuesday. Gun crimes that weren’t
fatal fell by 69%. However, guns still remain the most common murder
weapon in the United States, the report noted. Between 1993 and 2011,
more than two out of three murders in the U.S. were carried out with
guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found.
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