One thing about statistics is that you sometimes have to really work hard to bend them around to a point of view they don't support.
For example, consider this little factoid:
Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout the Nation reported a decrease of 5.5 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for 2009 when compared with figures reported for 2008. The violent crime category includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The number of property crimes in the United States in 2009 decreased 4.9 percent when compared with data from 2008. Property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Arson is also a property crime, but data for arson are not included in property crime totals. Figures for 2009 indicate that arson decreased 10.4 percent when compared to 2008 figures.
Now, the anti-gun lobby is always telling us that more guns in the hands of private citizens is going to lead to more gun violence. Looks like just the opposite is true. And the election of Obama was the greatest boost to the gun sales business ever seen in the industry. Yet we have this result. Wonder how the Brady bunch will spin this one?
Mayor Daley keeps flogging his anti-gun laws even when we posted this the other day,
where an 80 year old couple were saved in Chicago by the ILLEGAL gun they had.
Keep the iron oiled and the powder dry.
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