More Guns = Less Crime

John Lott once wrote a book entitled "More Guns, Less Crime." Liberals HATE this book. I've been told that the concept is OBVIOUSLY wrong... How could MORE deadly weapons lead to LESS crime? I guess the underlying supposition is that the guns practice some kind of mind control, and merely owning them puts you in their influence. And the guns want us to kill each other off.

Heck, I don't know.

But the fact of the matter is that, since PresBo took office gun sales have SKYROCKETED. At the same time, crimes rates have declined.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75359

Violent crime continued to fall in 2009, even as gun sales reached an all-time high, according to statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This is “proof positive that gun prohibitionists have been consistently and undeniably wrong,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in a statement.

According to the FBI, the number of violent crimes of all types declined in 2009 by 5.3 percent and property crimes declined 4.6 percent. In fact, the rate of violent crime declined 6.1 percent below 2008 figures.

In fact, the types of crime most likely to be committed with a firearm, murders and manslaughters, experienced one of the greatest rates of decline in 2009 – 7.3 percent.

While violent crime was going down in 2009, guns sales were experiencing a record year. According to data from the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System (NICS), 2009 was the best year on record for gun sales.

In fact, there were nearly 2 million more guns sold in the United States in 2009 than in 2008, the next best year for gun sales, when 12.7 million NICS checks were recorded.

Who'da thunk it?


Liberals have been telling us for years that if we let people in cities like DC and New York own guns, crime rates will soar. These claims mirror those used to combat concealed carry initiatives, when they usually claim that the streets will "run with blood." When it doesn't happen that way, gun control advocates are strangely silent.

The sad fact of the matter is that criminals don't want to attack you or rob you in order to get killed; they have the goals they want to achieve. Money, getting rid of somebody, whatever... they don't want to DIE. When more people own and carry guns, the pool of victims shrinks, and criminals become just a LITTLE more worried about whether or not their intended victim has a gun.

So when I heard gun sales went up, I EXPECTED violent crime rates to drop at least a little. And I was right.

John Lott, the title of your book has been proven confirmed. More guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens does, in fact, result in less crime.