Firearm-Related Homicides Dropped, But Dems Don’t Tend To Think That

By Tom Knighton

We’re all going to die.

Well, we are. Eventually. But if you listen to anti-gun activists, we’re all going to get shot dead because gun-related homicides are just plain getting out of hand. It’s an epidemic that can’t be contained unless we act now and pass gun control. We just have to!

That’s what they tell us, at least.

However, A.W.R. Hawkins over at Breitbart notes that it’s a pile of male bovine excrement.

Washington Post analysis shows Democrats, followed closely by independents, are more apt to believe firearm murders have increased. And this feeds the Democrat psyche which is already more prone to support an expansion of gun control laws.

But the reality is that the high water mark for firearm murders was 1994 while 2017, the most recent year with complete data on incidents, shows a sharp drop. There were “16,136 [firearm murders] in 1994” but only “10,982” in 2017.

Hawkins also notes that if you look at just the murder rate–homicide rates also include justified homicides, among other things–the dip is even sharper.

So why do people seem to honestly believe that we’re somehow more violent?

Well, part of that may be an artifact of how news is …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms