True - number of firearms sold, estimated by NICS, tells us little about gun buying. As well it should.
During COVID, homicide rates took an upswing and gun control advocates blamed it on an increase of 2.5 million 1st-time gun owners, acquiring guns via NICS. "Excess Gun Deaths" they called them. But now that the homicide rate is dropping, how did that ever-growing cumulative gun stock manage a ‘More Guns Less Crime’ effect?
Never to waste a crisis or good news, the Democrats just change the topic:
"The study also potentially blows a hole in recent arguments pushed by Donald Trump and other Republicans that Democrats are ignoring a massive crime wave in US cities."
AH Datalytics study of 90 US cities shows 12.2% drop in first five months of 2023 – but murder rates have increased in some places
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Weeks after the decline was reported, the story remained snubbed by MSM.
"The precipitous decline in the murder rate, however, has not merited any dedicated coverage in the nation's largest newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press. It also has been rarely mentioned on cable news channels."
In 2020, along with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a dramatic spike in murders in the United States. This increase in lethal violence, understandably, was covered extensively in national and local media outlets. Yet, much of this coverage lacked critical context. While the...
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