We told them so!

More guns == less crime. We told them.

They told us the streets would run with blood if more people went out armed.

Now, the truth is out - direct from the US Department of Justice - PDF at the link:

U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Statistics
BJS

Special Report

In 2011, a total of 478,400 fatal and nonfatal violent
crimes were committed with a firearm (table 1).

Homicides made up about 2% of all firearm-related
crimes. There were 11,101 firearm homicides in 2011,
down by 39% from a high of 18,253 in 1993 (figure 1).
The majority of the decline in firearm-related homicides
occurred between 1993 and 1998. Since 1999, the number of
firearm homicides increased from 10,828 to 12,791 in 2006
before declining to 11,101 in 2011.

Nonfatal firearm-related violent victimizations against
persons age 12 or older declined 70%, from 1.5 million
in 1993 to 456,500 in 2004 (figure 2). The number then
fluctuated between about 400,000 to 600,000 through 2011.1
While the number of firearm crimes declined over time, the
percentage of all violence that involved a firearm did not
change substantively, fluctuating between 6% and 9% over
the same period. In 1993, 9% of all violence was committed
with a firearm, compared to 8% in 2011. 

How about that "gun show loophole"?

In 2004, among state prison inmates who possessed a gun
at the time of offense, less than 2% bought their firearm at
a flea market or gun show and 40% obtained their firearm
from an illegal source.

 There you have it - proof positive that we are right and the loony Left is dead wrong.