Did The Associated Press Look For REAL Causes Of Gun Crime?

By Tom Knighton

As gun owners, the media is not on our side. They look for everything they can to push the narrative of “Guns are bad, mmmkay?” However, the only “facts” that really support such a narrative are biased statistics that are designed to paint guns as evil.

However, there have been a few stories that indicate the press might be starting to get it. First, CBS finds that criminals buy guns off the street rather than at gun stores in Chicago, and now the Associated Press apparently looks for the real causes of violence.

Of the 10 cities with the highest teen shooting rates, most had populations of less than 250,000 people. Among them were Savannah, Georgia; Trenton, N.J.; Syracuse, N.Y.; Fort Myers, Fla.; and Richmond, Va. Chicago was the lone large-population city high on the list.

Poverty and a sense of hopelessness in the most violent neighborhoods is a common thread. Syracuse, a university town that once cranked out air conditioners and televisions, now has a poverty rate of 35%.

Others, like Savannah, are deeply divided. While its antebellum mansions, gnarled live oaks and marble monuments to war heroes drew more than 13 million visitors last year, away from picture-postcard oasis of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms