Media Silence is Deafening about Important Gun News

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Media Silence Is Deafening About Important Gun News

By John Lott

Published September 30, 2011

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 . . . ."

The New York Times even editorialized this month about the Supreme Court's "unwise" decision that there is a right for people "to keep guns in the home."

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.
 
Maybe Boston should give it a try?

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Well, in all fairness, Federal rulings notwitstanding, there's what....half a dozen new "legal" guns in DC and none in Chi-town due to the "reasonable restrictions" the localities added to tweak the rules. [sad2]
(Isn't there a thread about that around here?)

So, I'm sure that it's just a case of insufficient data. When the bad news [STRIKE=undefined]is manufactured[/STRIKE] occurs, it'll be reported.[rolleyes][rolleyes]
 
BLOOD
IN
THE

STREETS!!!


...I'm waiting...

When criminals know there is a good chance they will get shot in the face if they break into a home, for example, they tend to do that less... common sense applies here, you would think.
 
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