An interesting survey on Gun deaths
From
Pew Research:
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware
National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.
But, thanks to all of the wonderful 'low information' citizens:
Despite national attention to the issue of firearm violence, most Americans are unaware that gun crime is lower today than it was two decades ago. According to a new Pew Research Center survey, today 56% of Americans believe gun crime is higher than 20 years ago and only 12% think it is lower.
This is the same as the reported increase in tornadoes, large storms (global warming doncha-know) and other catastrophies -- better news reporting. We now hear about homicides in small towns where before, they would not be generally reported (the liberal media beats the drum again and again and again).
As
Robert Anson Heinlein once said:
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Posted by DaveH at May 7, 2013 9:30 PM