The Patriot Post® · CRS: More Guns, Less Crime

A new report from the Congressional Research Service affirms a point 2nd Amendment advocates have long argued: Despite the massive growth in the number of firearms obtained by Americans through the decades, the homicide rate has fallen dramatically – more than 50% since 1993. Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins gives the breakdown: “According to the report, the ‘firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide’ rate was 6.6 per 100,000 Americans in 1993. Following the exponential growth in the number of guns, that rate fell to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2000. This rate rose from 2004 to 2005 and got as high as 3.9 in 2006 and 2007, but it then resumed falling in 2008… This figure fell to 3.2 per 100,000 by 2011.” Given the Left’s rhetoric, you’d think the homicide rate has never been higher. Far from it.