More People Buying Guns May Be Reason for Decline In Violent Crime In United States - OpsLens

“In fact, The Pew Research Center came out with a report in February of this year showing several different downward trends involving violent crime in the United States.”

While discussing firearms statistics and crime trends in the United States in a recent twitter back and forth, I was amazed to find out how little most people know about crime in the United States and how few people can recall actual numbers on these subjects.

You would think if someone is going to discuss or argue their side of the gun violence fallacy or the violent crime epidemic policy that they would research a little bit before making themselves look foolish. Unfortunately, I have found that is not the case.

It is a given fact that in the United States gun purchases and gun ownership have been going up steadily since around 1998 or so when the national background records checks began, and record keeping of purchases started. Only since January of this year have background checks not exceeded those from the previous year.

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