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NEW FBI CRIME REPORTS REINFORCE GUN OWNERSHIP SUPPORTERS
06/13/2005
Recently released FBI crime data validates statements by gun ownership advocates that last year's expiration of the so-called "assault weapons ban" would not impact crime and may, in fact, help improve community safety.

According to an FBI report, the national homicide rate has declined for the first time since 1999. The report shows that homicides declined 5.4 percent in cities with more than 1 million people and overall murder rates dropped 3.6 percent.

"I think this justifies our statements that the expiration of the ban would not have a negative impact on crime in this country or in New York," said Tom King, President of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association.

When the ten year old ban on certain semiautomatic firearms expired last September, gun control advocates and media outlets warned of increases in violence, especially against children.

"Unfortunately, those same people trying to draw the connection between crime and gun ownership have apparently stopped trying to make such a connection public. And, apparently the media is not as concerned with publicizing these truths." said King. "Violent crime has decreased since the weapon ban expired. What can be more telling than that?"

From the MOCCW List:

INTERESTING THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
 
If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.  The rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000.  That means that you are 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation's Capitol - which has the strictest gun control laws in the nation - than you are in Iraq.
 
 
Conclusion:  We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C.