DID YOU KNOW THAT GUN MURDERS ARE ACTUALLY DOWN 49% IN THE U.S.?

November 6, 2017

According to the Pew research center, Homicide deaths with firearms are way down in the U.S. from a high of 7.0 per 100,000 people in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2010. That rate has stayed steady at around 3.6 for the last 6 years.

Yes, Mass Shootings are in the news constantly and their numbers have spiked since 2004. But the U.S. has a history of Mass Shootings clearly in clusters, probably driven by news media coverage leading to copycats.

Remember the term “Going Postal”? The expression comes from a cluster of mass shootings from 1986 through the 1990’s in which United States Postal Service workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public. Between 1970 and 1997, more than 40 people were killed by current or former employees in at least 20 separate mass shootings.

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According to the Center for Disease Control, Congressional Research Services, there is clearly a direct correlation in the U.S. between high gun ownership and the murder rate. Murders go way down. Murder rates dropped by 49% while gun ownership rose by over 40% over the same time period.

So if you really want to reduce the murder rate, instead of supporting gun buyback programs, we should be giving more good honest people guns to protect themselves and their families. Guns save lives.

Rob Lauer

Political Reporter

360Daily.net