Legislation to limit your 2nd Amendment rights has been a top Democratic Party priority for the last year or so. The horrendous crime wave sweeping across America demands action (read- laws infringing your rights)!
Things have never been worse!
Read the whole thing.
Violent crime, and gun crime in general, are down steeply in the last 20 years. I knew that, but until I read the article, I didn’t realize the magnitude of the decline. It is almost astonishing.
First, the obvious correlation with far more acceptance of concealed carry throughout the various states springs to mind.
But other factors also occur to me. Our demographics are shifting to an older population, which I suspect may have some influence.
And here’s where I posit a really whacked theory.
When crack first hit the streets, there were any number of drug wars. That lead to a skyrocketing murder rate. But street gangs quickly took over from the individual entrepreneur. And while various street gangs have fought from time to time, and of course, continue to kill innocents, for the most part, they have defined territories in which they hold sway. And don’t forget, they also have an incentive to keep violence as low as possible. The less violent crime on their turf, the less time the police spend investigating them.
At any rate, violence in today’s society is actually a concept that is utterly remote to the vast majority of our citizens.
XBradTC 
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