Posted October 5, 2017 2:12 pm by Comments

By Justin Haskins

Since the mass shooting in Las Vegas that ended with at least 58 people dead and close to 500 injured, anti-gun progressives have been working overtime to convince the American people that gun owners’ rights should be greatly restricted, a move they say will make the United States a much safer place to live.

The left attempts to achieve its vision for a gun-free America by appealing to the emotions of a hurting nation, but if people look beyond the worn-out progressive slogans to the facts, they’ll see that passing restrictive gun laws does not create the promised reductions in crime. In fact, statistics show thousands of lives are saved every year because of legal gun ownership.

Below are three facts that completely dismantle the left’s anti-gun narrative.

No. 1: More guns do not equal more crime.

Progressives’ entire argument about gun ownership hinges on the idea that societies that have more guns are more likely to have greater problems with crime. It has always amazed me how easily so many Americans have bought into such an obviously false claim.

According to researchers at Boston University and Columbia University, there are only six states in which at least 50 percent of …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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