Numbers Don’t Lie – the Statistic You Need to Prove the Gun Grabbers Wrong

By Justin Stakes

By Don McDougall

United States -(AmmoLand.com)- A simple fact is the anti-gun left spout numbers and statistics all the time, they get them wrong, keep on repeating them and sooner or later they get treated as fact.

Here are some actual numbers and reasoned discussions to leave them flapping in the breeze.

Chicago – Chicago has a murder rate almost seven times that of the national average.

Chicago has 500 murders by gun a year and a population of 2.7 million people, the US has 8,500 gun related murders and a population of 318 million.

Chicago has 185 murders per million people; the US has 27 murders per million people. Chicago has a murder rate almost seven times that of the national average. So a city that has a virtual ban on guns also has a murder rate with guns that is dramatically higher than the rest of the country. By the “rest of the US” I exclude cities that have gun bans of their own like Baltimore where a population of 700,000 will have 300 gun related murders.

The top 10 major US cities account for almost 1,700 deaths or 20% of all murders with guns. Gun deaths are not spread …Read the Rest

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