Don’t Believe the Media — Gun Homicide Rates Dropped by 40% as Ownership Skyrocketed

The story is all too familiar: America is facing a historic crime wave, and guns are to blame. With shootings and school violence near all-time highs, it’s time to have a serious talk about the Second Amendment and gun ownership in the modern world. Did that opening get your attention? It should, but mainly because it’s blatantly false. You wouldn’t know it by listening to the mainstream media, however. That false appraisal of crime in the U.S. is often spread by voices on the left, but the actual facts paint a very different picture. It turns out that even as concealed carry has become mainstream and the much-maligned AR-15 has become one of the most popular rifles in America, the gun crime rate has declined. “The homicide rate from firearms has fallen in the United States and in North America as a whole,” reported the Cato Institute , a non-partisan political think tank with a conservative bent. View image on Twitter If you’re like most Americans, you think back on the 1990s with positive nostalgia. Things were pretty good then (other than the guy in the White House) but have only gotten worse — right? (Again, other than the guy in the White House.) Actually, while musical trends and parachute pants are still up for debate, the ’90s weren’t actually so great when it came to gun crime. “The U.S. [firearm homicide] rate was 5.56 in 1990, and had decreased to 3.97 by 2016,” Cato noted. That’s nearly a […]

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