From — of all places — the Los Angeles Times:

Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show.

Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center.

In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half.

For those of you who just tuned in, let’s repeat that last sentence:

In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half.

Continuing:

Other gun crimes fell even more sharply, paralleling a broader drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns. Violent crime dropped steeply during the 1990s and has fallen less dramatically since the turn of the millennium.

The number of gun killings dropped 39% between 1993 and 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in a separate report released Wednesday. Gun crimes that weren’t fatal fell by 69%. However, guns still remain the most common murder weapon in the United States, the report noted. Between 1993 and 2011, more than two out of three murders in the U.S. were carried out with guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found.

But here come the results of indoctrination by the American Media Maggots, revealed:

Despite the remarkable drop in gun crime, only 12% of Americans surveyed said gun crime had declined compared with two decades ago, according to Pew, which surveyed  more than 900 adults this spring. Twenty-six percent said it had stayed the same, and 56% thought it had increased.

But, from the Department of Redundancy Dept:

Experts debate why overall crime has fallen, attributing the drop to all manner of causes, such as the withering of the crack cocaine market and surging incarceration rates.

Really?  You mean actually putting people in jail may work — ?

Florida already wants to make Anger Management classes mandatory for ammo buyers.

What the Demorats and Leftists don’t want to acknowledge is that there is a definite correlation between gun control and black people control.

Because it’s not about gun control, it’s about People Control.

“We live in a society of wolves.  You do not fight back by creating more sheep.”

I already wrote about “Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs.”  Because I am a sheepdog.

Evidence indicates that guns prevent crime.

My Rules of a Gunfight are here.

To confirm: the number of guns are UP and crime is down here.

The Heller decision here.

US gun-grabbing history here.

How the American Media Maggots view guns.

The UN definitely wants your guns, here.

How to shoot a handgun accurately by Massad Ayoob here.

Finally, a brief summary of federal gun control in the United States here.

So, ask yourself: if the statistics don’t bear out an America Gone Wild in terms of rampant gun violence, then what’s the point of stricter gun control laws?

Correct: because it’s not about gun control, it’s about People Control.

BZ