30-Year Low for Gun Homicides.
While I care about individuals, I hate it when individual cases of gun violence are used to create gun policy. So I like it when statistics gathered by the gun-hating CDC and published in gun-hating USA Today proves my point.
“The homicide rate for young people, ages 10 to 24, hit a 30-year low in 2010, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The lower rate of youth homicide — those killed by other people — was true across all age, racial and ethnic youth groups, say the findings published in CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.”
The overall homicide rate in 2010 was 7.5 deaths per 100,000 people in that age group — the lowest rate since 1981. That translates to about 4,828 homicides in this age range.
“We were very pleased to see a promising decline that began in 1994 and has continued so that in 2010 we reached a 30-year low,” says the paper’s lead author, Corinne Ferdon, a behavioral scientist with the CDC.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/11/homicide-rate-youth/2508717/
Of course, Ferdon won’t allow herself to reach the conclusion that the Second Amendment works, instead she said: “the lower rates of homicide may be partly due to the “hard work” being done in communities, schools and families to take a comprehensive approach to prevent violence. This includes teaching youths good communications skills and how to solve problems in non-violent ways, helping families set rules and monitor children’s activities and friends and community approaches that enhance safety.”
Sorry Ferndon, that’s not the reason. There’s less crime because gun ownership has increased tremendously. More than 80 million of us have guns, 30 States have stand your ground laws, the NRA is almost 5 million strong, and by packing in public, more of us are able to stop crime just by brandishing our weapons.
The website Guns Save Lives have over 900 documented cases of armed self-defense. I recommend it if you want to learn more.
http://gunssavelives.net/category/self-defense/
