Beloit Daily News, again:
We've heard for years that we have to do "something" about gun violence and the easy availability of guns. How gun crime is increasing. We have to ACT!
That we need "universal background checks" and have to close the "gun show loophole" even though only 1% of weapons used in crime were obtained at a gun show and less than 15% were legally purchased.
That we have to ban scary "assault rifles" and "large capacity ammunition feeding devices", when under 2% of crimes involved a rifle of any kind.
Well, the truth hurts - the US Department of Justice just released a report that shows "gun violence" is down by two-thirds since 1993 - at the same time Americans have greatly increased the number of privately owned weapons, and all but one state now have some sort of concealed carry law.
A PDF of the report can be found here: http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf
Now, can we please not hear any more about how we need to add even more useless laws to the 20,000-odd gun restrictions now on the books - every one of them in violation of our Second Amendment?
Chuck Kuecker
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