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General Topics => Legal and Activism => Topic started by: 2aHawaii on December 31, 2009, 02:36:14 PM

Title: FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders As Firearm, Ammunition Sales Soar
Post by: 2aHawaii on December 31, 2009, 02:36:14 PM

Good news for people for everybody. Murders decreased in 2009 from 2008's numbers. Maybe guns don't kill people.  :oops:

Quote from: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5268

Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2009prelimsem/index.html), showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963—a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI next year.

According to gun control supporter dogma—“more guns means more crime”—the number of privately owned firearms must have decreased 10 percent in 2009. To the contrary, however, the number rose between 1.5 and 2 percent, to an all-time high. For the better part of the last 15 months, firearms, ammunition, and “large” ammunition magazines have been sold in what appear to be record quantities. And, the firearms that were most commonly purchased in 2009 are those that gun control supporters most want to be banned—AR-15s, similar semi-automatic rifles, and handguns designed for defense. The National Shooting Sports Foundation already estimates record ammunition sales in 2009, dominated by .223 Remington, 7.62x39mm, 9mm and other calibers widely favored for defensive purposes.

Also indicative of the upward trend in firearm sales, the number of national instant check transactions (http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/nics/Total%20NICS%20Background%20Checks.htm) rose 24.5 percent in the first six months of 2009 compared to the first six months in 2008, the greatest increase since NICS’ inception in 1998. Through the end of October, NICS transactions rose18 percent, compared to the same period in 2008.

More Guns Means More Crime? Hardly. In 2009, more guns meant less crime, in a very, very big way.

Title: Re: FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders As Firearm, Ammunition Sales Soar
Post by: HiCarry on January 03, 2010, 02:36:12 PM

I haven't had a chance to read the report, but I wonder if the method of the murders changed much from past years. If I am not mistaken, I also read that the number of police killed in the line of duty was at a all time low. Coincidence??

I found one site that said 49% of police killed in the line of duty were from gunfire, yet this site, while noting a fair share of gunfire deaths, seems to show more deaths from vehicular related incidents. And, at least two of those gunfire deaths were "accidental" where they were shot by ther fellow officers.

http://www.njlawman.com/2002_line_of_duty_deaths.htm (http://www.njlawman.com/2002_line_of_duty_deaths.htm)