‘Media Silence Is Deafening About Important Gun News

Posted on October 2, 2011 by KG

Murder and violent crime rates were supposed to soar after the Supreme Court struck down gun control laws in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
Politicians predicted disaster. “More handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence,” Washington’s Mayor Adrian Fenty warned the day the court made its decision.
Chicago’s Mayor Daley predicted that we would “go back to the Old West, you have a gun and I have a gun and we’ll settle it in the streets . . . .”
But Armageddon never happened. Newly released data for Chicago shows that, as in Washington, murder and gun crime rates didn’t rise after the bans were eliminated — they plummeted. They have fallen much more than the national crime rate.
Not surprisingly, the national media have been completely silent about this news.    source

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12 Responses to ‘Media Silence Is Deafening About Important Gun News

  1. Southern says:
    October 2, 2011 at 10:31

    For myself, I would not pick a fight or try to rob somebody – they might be armed.

    I don’t carry or anything, but if you want to, go right ahead.

  2. Darin71 says:
    October 2, 2011 at 10:41

    As a sheriff once told me,it is better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.

  3. mara says:
    October 2, 2011 at 14:27

    :The national media have been completely silent about that: Of course, no surprise here. In the 50’s, my dad came to NZ. He was at peak fitness and strength and well used to weapons. But NZ was much safer then. You left your house unlocked when you left it. He didn’t need a gun. Many years later when he became old and more helpless in the face of increasing crime, he polished up his hunting gun and kept it handy and loaded. I remember one night that he saw off an intruder with this weapon. Anyone here prepared to tell me what was wrong with that?

  4. KG says:
    October 2, 2011 at 14:43

    Me neither.

  5. Michael in Nelson says:
    October 2, 2011 at 15:59

    It would have been better if he had seen the intruder carried out in a body bag.

  7. ZenTiger says:
    October 2, 2011 at 17:46

    You might be keen on guns if…

    -If you cannot really recall just how many guns you own…
    -Surplus ammunition suppliers call you to see if there was anything you were looking for…
    -If you bought a gun from a gunshop, only to realize you used to own it years ago…
    -If you’ve ever bought ammo for a calibre you didn’t shoot, thinking that someday you might own a gun in that calibre…
    -If you home-school and use ballistic tables for math lessons…
    -If your gun safe is bigger than your refrigerator…
    -If the speedometer on your car is in both m.p.h. and fps…
    -If watching the Lion King gives you the itch for a .470 Nitro…
    -If you cut out your best groups and carry them in your wallet like photos…
    -if your favorite saint is John Moses Browning.
    -if you carry concealed at the beach
    -if you have ever read an article in the crime section of the newspaper and read “the suspect had over 200 rounds of ammunition”, then assumed it was a misprint. who in his right mind would get down to only 200 rounds???
    – if when someone says “but what if you don’t have a gun with you?” and after 15 minutes you still can comprehend how that would be possible.
    -if your favorites in the computer only have one folder, “guns.”
    -Your Golf bag has a gun compartment

    etc

  8. Darin71 says:
    October 3, 2011 at 09:48

    -If you’ve ever bought ammo for a calibre you didn’t shoot, thinking that someday you might own a gun in that calibre…
    Does 7.7Ariska,8mm Mauser,12mm magnum and 20mm Lahti count? :grin:

  9. KG says:
    October 3, 2011 at 10:18

    And Lapua .338….. :mrgreen: