More Guns Mean Less Crime: What the MSM Will Not Tell You

As most of the readers here will be aware, the election of Barak Hussein Obama set off a surge of gun and ammo sales.  So great have been the increases, that prices have gone up significantly, and many types of ammo are in short supply.   The Times Dispatch did a recent article on the situation, and an interesting side effect.  A side effect that will NEVER be discussed in the MSM, at least in this context.

Barack Obama proved the gun nuts wrong.

In the months following the presidential election, sales of firearms and ammunition in the U.S. soared. The first 10 months of 2008 had seen an uneven but overall rise of gun and ammo sales, but they spiked in early November over widespread fears that Obama was a “gun grabber.”

The headlines told the tale: “Gun Sales Soar Amid Fears of Barack Obama Weapons Ban”; “Gun Sales Up Since Election”; “Gun Sales Skyrocket Amid Obama Concerns”; “Obama Driving Surge in Gun Sales, Firearms Groups Say.” By April of last year sales were so brisk gun shops were having trouble keeping ammunition in stock.

Obama’s campaign had tried to reassure gun owners that the senator was a friend of the Second Amendment. The effort was undercut by Obama’s remarks about rural voters who bitterly “cling to guns or religion” when they’re not, you know, handling snakes and dating their cousins. Obama also had raised suspicions by repeatedly insisting he supported “common sense” restrictions on gun ownership. That’s usually a dead giveaway. You never hear politicians say they believe in the First Amendment but favor “common sense” restrictions on free speech and religious worship.

Well, I think this part of the article is overly simplistic, and ignores much of what the POTUS has done regarding guns, like his position as a board member on the Joyce Foundation, which is vehemently anti-gun.  Also ignored are his appointments of anti-gun officials, such as Eric Holder and Cass Sunstein.  Obama changed his rhetoric, just as he did with single payer, but he appointed people that would do it for him.  That, of course, gives him some cover.

Consumed with the Porkulus, Cap and Trade, and heath care for most of 2009, the administration simply has not done anything else.  What will happen when he has more time?

Here’s the part you will never see on MSNBC.

At the same time, the nation has seen a sharp drop in violent crime.

Which means the gun nuts are proving liberals wrong, too.

After all, it has been an article of faith among gun-control advocates that guns cause crime. That catechism was repeated relentlessly after the 2008 Heller ruling, in which the Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on gun ownership: “Introducing more handguns into the District will mean more handgun violence,” D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty lamented.

Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin agreed: “There is no question that this decision from the Supreme Court makes it harder for all mayors to keep their city safe,” she told NPR. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley called the ruling “very frightening.” The New York Times fumed the court had “all but ensured that even more Americans will die senselessly.” The Chicago Tribune issued an equally nuanced and measured response: “Repeal the Second Amendment,” it begged.

Yet despite a remarkable uptick in gun sales, during the first six months of 2009 violent crime fell 4.4 percent, property crime fell 6.6 percent, homicides fell 10 percent, and car thefts fell 19 percent.

As Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute recently pointed out, the falling crime rate was particularly precipitous in big cities such as Los Angeles, where homicides fell 17 percent in 2009, and New York, where they fell 19 percent.

If guns caused crime, then we should have expected precisely the opposite to happen — particularly given the related liberal belief, which Mac Donald dissects, that hard economic times drive people to desperate acts. Among others, she quotes a New York Times editorial in late 2008 fretting that “the economic crisis has clearly created the conditions for more crime and more gangs among hopeless, jobless young men in the inner cities.” If liberal orthodoxy held true, then the combination of hard times and more guns should have made the past year a record-setting period for bloodshed. It didn’t.

So, as many of us have been saying for decades now, there is a correlation with guns and crime.  More guns=less crime.  These stats are even more remarkable given the current economic conditions, when it is anticipated that there would be more crime.

So, I think the writer here is half correct.  Just like as regarding single payer, Obama has masked his true intentions.  And, just like in the health care debate, he will eventually let underlings take these actions in an attempt to provide cover for himself.

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