A report by the FBI shows that gun ownership is on the rise and crime is on the decline. If one were to believe the media and some posters on this forum, you would think crime were at an all-time high and rising, yet the facts paint a different picture. What are your thoughts on the FBI's report?


Read More:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/november/crime-statistics-for-2013-released/crime-statistics-for-2013-released
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-violent-crime-1970s-level-20141110-story.html
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/10/FBI-Report-Confirms-Crime-Fell-While-Gun-Purchases-Soared-In-2013

This post was edited by SwaziSpring on Nov 12 2014 02:17am

Everyone knows that banning guns that aren't being used in crimes is what's responsible for the decline in violent crime.

This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on Nov 12 2014 02:29am

Is good! High five!

Yeap.

"It causes dementia, violence, impure thoughts and many other mental problems as a result"

http://drlwilson.com/articles/LEAD.htm

Lead is a bad mineral to have in your system and a bad one to have anywhere in the environment because chances are, if its there itll be in your body and the effects of that tend to be pretty bad for the human biochemistry.

This substantiates your claim, however sarcastic it may have been

This post was edited by Skinned on Nov 12 2014 06:10am

Yay Roe V Wade, and this is old news. Crime rates have been way down ever since the late 90's.

No, it really doesn't. I'm talking about "assault weapon" bans. That have shown to have no effect because those weapons aren't the ones being used to commit these crimes.
Funny thing about those evil "assault weapons", I was watching CSI on sunday and there was a gunman that used a semi automatic AR-15, they didn't give the exact model, just said AR-15. One CSI called it an assault rifle and I cringed. Then their boss said that it can pump out 700 rounds in a minute, I almost fell off my recliner.

Also, the murders in 2012 went up.
Then crime(homicides, robberies, burglaries, car thefts) magically went down after Chicago released their restrictions on concealed permits.
Also, you should look into all the cases of "reclassification" of crimes in Chicago, you'll find some very peculiar data that makes those numbers inaccurate.

http://www.deveber.org/blog/2010/03/11/does-abortion-reduce-crime-rates

That logic is spurious.

Murders =|= crime. A murder can also happen when yuo are protecting yourself from criminals, using a gun no less.