Tag Archives: pro-gun statistics

We are the 99.99%

310 million people lived in the US in 2011 with almost 300 million firearms being owned. 1.2 million violent crimes occurred in 2011, translating to 0.04% of the US population. With 8,653 resulting in a HOMICIDE by firearm, that’s 0.07% of the 1.2 million violent crimes. That’s 0.07% of the 0.04%! To really grasp how […]

The Mild West.

Liberals use the “wild west” argument every time we want to pass a pro-gun law, and let’s face it, westerns would not be popular without a the shootouts and the violence. But fiction is fiction and facts are facts, and according to Hollon’s, Frontier Violence: Another Look, the wild west was pretty mild. In Abilene, […]