If Gun Control Works So Well, Why Is There An ‘Gun Crime’ Rate To Drop?

By Tom Knighton

Gun control activists continually claim that guns are the problem, that if we magically made all the guns go away, life would be an absolute Utopia. Abusive husbands would only use harsh language, stalkers would never attack innocent women, rapists would say “please” and “thank you”, dogs and cats would live together in harmony, and so on.

We know that’s not even close to the reality. Further, a report at The Trace leads one to think that, on some level, they have to know this.

The most comprehensive study yet of a popular violence-prevention group’s New York City program has found it effective in reducing gun crime and defusing situations that can lead to shootings in two neighborhoods where it is in force.

Cure Violence, a national, public health-based program that employs “credible messengers” like former gang members and ex convicts from within the community to help defuse violent situations before they start, was responsible for statistically significant drops in the number of shooting victims and gunshot hospitalizations in areas of East New York, Brooklyn, and the South Bronx, according to a new study by researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

The study’s review of shootings and gun injuries …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms