Dear God. We are frigging doomed. Remember one of the basic principles of Gun Control: Their predictions always are wrong. (Wild West, blood on the streets, etc.) If we let the do their thing, murders will double in that amount of time instead of being at the lowest rate since 1957 and cut by half since 1974, the year the Handgun Control Inc (as the Brady Campaign was known back then) was founded.
Dear Dan Gross: Just go do some fundraising by selling your members email addresses or something. Don’t mess with success.
Well, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Let’s take a moment, and assume the current downward trend in crime continues. Let’s also assume that the current trend of Democrats opening their mouths and spewing stupid all over the place continues. Let’s further assume that as a result of number 2, spewing from the mouths of Democrats, that more guns are bought, and more first time gun owners are brought into the fold. Finally, let us assume that concealed carry numbers continue to rise as a result of more and more states adopting better concealed carry laws (such as “constitutional” carry).
It is entirely possible that with increasing gun ownership, increasing gun sales, increasing concealed carry, increasing “constitutional” carry, and increasing calls for more gun control by Democrats, that the downward spiral of crime could continue, and the number of so-called gun deaths actually would continue to drop, not because the Brady Bunch and others wish it so, or because they get their wet-dream gun control legislation passed, but merely because criminals are feeling the heat with so many armed citizens around.
I doubt it would fall by half, but who knows. I know that if they get their way and actually pass more stupid restrictions on our rights, the gun deaths would not only not fall, they would increase dramatically. Anyone with a brain and an internet connection can see that. Which excludes the anti-gun folks, I know.
I would actually go and say here that we will have a tick up for this year in murder/manslaughter, brought by the crap in Ferguson and Baltimore. As somebody told me, cops in many areas are applying the FIDO principle: Fuck It, Drive On.
Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me. Being crapped on by both sides is no fun, so I can see a lot of otherwise good cops saying, “I didn’t hear that call,” or “Not my problem.”
I think we’ve about hit bottom on the murder rate. At least until we can enable citizens of Baltimore, Chicago, and etc, to defend themselves.
Every time the LW try to make things safer it gets more dangerous,I mean long at how well they have done with mass shootings in gun free zones,it is at a all time high.Then yet they have the nerve to push their garbage and say their ways will make things safer.If you have eyes and/ears you should be able to see by the death toll they are dead wrong.How many have to die before they realize you have to meet force with force.It’s like they say you can’t take a knife to a gun fight and expect it to go well,and you surely can’t send a unarmed people up against armed idiots and expect it to be any different.They need to keep their coward butts at home and shut up and let the real Americans at least protect themselves and their families.