Zam-Zam
Senator
Something many of us may not have been aware of:
File this under “good news that won’t make too many headlines”; the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s released its Uniform Crime Report for 2018, and violent crime, including murder, declined significantly last year.
The 2018 statistics show the estimated rate of violent crime was 368.9 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants, and the estimated rate of property crime was 2,199.5 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants. The violent crime rate fell 3.9 percent when compared with the 2017 rate; the property crime rate declined 6.9 percent.
The violent crime rate in 2018 was the lowest this country has seen since 1971, when there were 396 violent crimes per 100,000 people. And unlike the 1970’s, when violent crime was on its way up, the trend since the early 1990’s has been towards a safer society. The nation’s violent crime rate in 2018 is less than half of what it was at its peak in 1991, which is fantastic news that will largely be ignored by our fear-mongering media.....
….It’s worth noting that, as violent crime has dropped, gun sales have climbed dramatically. Two decades ago, in 1999, there were a total of 9,138,123 NICS checks performed. In 2018, that number had nearly tripled to 26,181,936 checks. Now, not every NICS check represents a firearms sale, but it’s safe to say that we’ve added millions of privately owned firearms over the past two decades, and violent crime overall, and homicides specifically, have gone down while gun sales have gone up. The idea that more guns equals more crime is a foundational tenet of the gun control belief system, but it’s simply not true. We’ve actually had more guns and less crime over the past two decades, and hopefully that trend continues in the years to come.
Complete text:
https://bearingarms.com/cam-e/2019/09/30/fbi-says-murder-violent-crime-both-declined-in-2018/
Another narrative debunked.
File this under “good news that won’t make too many headlines”; the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s released its Uniform Crime Report for 2018, and violent crime, including murder, declined significantly last year.
The 2018 statistics show the estimated rate of violent crime was 368.9 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants, and the estimated rate of property crime was 2,199.5 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants. The violent crime rate fell 3.9 percent when compared with the 2017 rate; the property crime rate declined 6.9 percent.
The violent crime rate in 2018 was the lowest this country has seen since 1971, when there were 396 violent crimes per 100,000 people. And unlike the 1970’s, when violent crime was on its way up, the trend since the early 1990’s has been towards a safer society. The nation’s violent crime rate in 2018 is less than half of what it was at its peak in 1991, which is fantastic news that will largely be ignored by our fear-mongering media.....
….It’s worth noting that, as violent crime has dropped, gun sales have climbed dramatically. Two decades ago, in 1999, there were a total of 9,138,123 NICS checks performed. In 2018, that number had nearly tripled to 26,181,936 checks. Now, not every NICS check represents a firearms sale, but it’s safe to say that we’ve added millions of privately owned firearms over the past two decades, and violent crime overall, and homicides specifically, have gone down while gun sales have gone up. The idea that more guns equals more crime is a foundational tenet of the gun control belief system, but it’s simply not true. We’ve actually had more guns and less crime over the past two decades, and hopefully that trend continues in the years to come.
Complete text:
https://bearingarms.com/cam-e/2019/09/30/fbi-says-murder-violent-crime-both-declined-in-2018/
Another narrative debunked.
