Correlation Between Increased Gun Ownership And Lower Crime

By Semperpapa

This is a reality that the anti-gun left has been trying so feverishly to disprove, even as all the statistical indications are that the fact is exactly that, a fact: an armed society is a polite society.

Indisputable, really, as every report compiled by law enforcement agencies, both at local, state and federal level, have concluded that the increase in gun ownership, legal gun ownership, has a lowering effect on the rate of violent crime.

Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a report stating that the violent crime in the United States has dropped once again, for the fifth year in a row. The difference between 2010 and 2011 was of 4%; even non-violent crime has dropped.

There is a constant that liberals do not like to bring up in discussing drop in criminal activity, because it involves the proven statistic of a corresponding increase in gun ownership among Americans.
One of the indexes of increase in the numbers of American citizens legally acquiring firearms can also be found at the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System. This system is accessed by agencies across the nation every time someone purchases a gun legally.

In 2011 alone, Americans bought 16.5 additional weapons, according to NICS, and a definite record in the United States. In the first five months of this year, the NICS reports that the number of check for individuals buying a gun is up by 10% already.

Regardless of such bad news, the anti-gun crowd is not letting up on their attacks on the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution, because the agenda is very clear: abolish all guns and gun right of the American people.
The Utopian approach of such fools is that the abolition of gun ownership would eliminate the presence of firearms on the American streets.
As for every liberal agenda fight, the goal is to take rights away from law abiding citizens. Liberals do not like or approve of guns, so instead of just not owning one, they want everyone not to be able to own one. How typical is this.

But the numbers do not lie. when gun ownership increase, when legal gun rights are increased, criminals think about it twice before they engage in their favorite activities.
Why are gun shop never victims of robberies, even if they always have cash on hand and weapons?
Why are pawn shops dealing in valuable and weapons never victims of hold ups?
Simply, because the folks working in such establishments are notoriously armed.

In communities where carrying a weapons is allowed, or where CCW permits are given to law abiding citizens for the asking, criminal activities diminish. Why? Because armed citizens are less inclined to be victims and the criminal cannot know who is armed and who is not.

The well known liberalism of the current administration has had an unintentional result for gun ownership in America. President Obama has been called the best gun salesman in the country, because the radicalism of the President against the United States Constitution has triggered, forgive my semantic, a rush of Americans to gun shops, concerned by the possibility that the man would do anything in his power to destroy the 2nd Amendment if given the chance.

And Obama did take a chance with Fast and Furious.
Officially, the abominable operation was designed to place some weapons in the trafficking pipeline of the Mexican drug cartel and, by following the weapons, be able to get to the hearts of said cartels.
Of course, the moment these weapons were sold by American gun dealers with the blessing and even pressure of the federal government, tracking them failed. It took the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry to "connect the dots" (one of politicians favorite expression) when one of the sold guns was found to have been used for his killing.

In reality, Fast and Furious had as much to do with tracking Mexican drug cartels as intelligence has with Joe Biden. The operation was the behind-the-scenes operation from the White House and the Department of Justice attempt to create enough bloody killing across the border linked to American sold weapons, to raise national and international outrage to force the government to "do something" about the "gun problem" in the United States.
The "do something" was going to be the abolition of the 2nd Amendment and the path for the government confiscation of our firearms, to take away the "gun problem" from the American people.
The United Nations has been trying to intrude in the American constitutional right to own and bear arms for long now, and the developments in Mexico, should have they remained as covert as Obama and Holder wanted them to be, would have given a much needed boost to the anti-gun crusaders of America in their pursuit of their agenda.

What it comes down to is that it is only obvious that the idea of an armed encounter is a deterrent for criminal activities.
Last weekend in Chicago, as President Obama was attending his consiglierie Valery Jarrett's daughter's wedding. and while just that event drew away from duty at least 100 Chicago PD cops to protect the high profile "guests" of Jarrett, 7 people were shot and killed in the city.
Sure, not a new thing for Chicago, where violence reigns supreme. But worth noting is that in the first place, Obama spent many years as a political activist in that city, preaching government intrusion and refusal of personal responsibility, with the obvious results, and secondly Chicago has one of the most stringent anti-gun laws in the nation.
Just another sample of the reality that it is not preventing law abiding citizens to exercise their 2nd Amendment right that criminal activity is deterred. It is instead through the application of the existing anti crime law, while giving innocent people the chance to defend themselves.

That's freedom, something liberals abhor assiduously.

Just my thoughts!