Reply #32: Exaggerate much? [View All]

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a "cornerstone of the lack of morality in America"?

Wow!

How do you measure morality and determine if it is increasing or decreasing? Do you judge it on the number of people who go to church or the honesty of all the people?

Perhaps you could use crime rates. If so, morality is actually increasing.

FBI Report: Crime, Murder Rate Dropped in First Half of 2009

Crime fell 4.4 percent nationwide in the first half of 2009 with the murder rate dropping a startling 10 percent, according to statistics released Monday by the FBI. The decline in murders is one of the more significant one-time decreases in recent memory, according to some criminologists.

Crime rates have been dropping since 2007, following a run up in violent crime during the middle part of the decade. FBI figures for 2005 showed that violent crime had increased 2.5 percent overall, one of the largest percentage increases in 15 years. Overall crime in the United States increased 3.7 percent in 2006.

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Are We Becoming Less Violent

A drop in crime in major cities is likely what is influencing the national numbers. In Washington, D.C., for example, the murder rate fell to its lowest in the last two decades. This year to date there have been 135 homicides in the district compared with 183 at this time last year, a 26 percent drop. New York City had 440 murders compared with 497 a year earlier, a decline of 11.5 percent. In Los Angeles for the year the murder rate is down 19 percent.

Violent crime and aggravated assault decreased in major cities with over 1 million residents, dropping 7 percent and 6.2 percent, respectively.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/fbi-report-crime-murder-rate-dropping-half-2009/story?id=9391627&page=2

And this happened during the time frame when gun sales were skyrocketing.

Gun Sales Continue to Soar in 2009

Washington, DC --(AmmoLand.com)- Data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,074,757 checks in August 2009, a 12.3 percent increase from the 956,872 reported in August 2008.

So far that is roughly 9,076,205 gun bought this year! The total is probably more as NICS background checks may cover the purchase of more than one gun at a time.

This latest jump in background checks show that Americans are solidly in-favor of keeping firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens and clearly shows that proponents claiming the USA wants more gun control are blatantly wrong.

Gun Owners Say No to Gun Conrtol with their Wallets
The increased trend of Americans buying firearms at a record pace was once thought to be a one time fluke caused by fears of the new Obama administration expressed lust for more gun control. But now 10 months in and the wrongly named “fear buying” has now become the norm as law abiding US citizen exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear firearms by the millions every month with no sign of slowing down.

The bulk of the buying has been concentrated on the following types of guns or calibers:

* Semi Auto Handguns
* Revolvers
* Ar15s and all variants of the Black Rifle
* .50 Caliber

1.17 Guns for Each Person
Conservative estimates of legally owned guns in the USA put the number at 355,029,250 million guns in the USA. That is 1.17 guns for everyone in the USA and if you listen to the liberal press they are all assault weapons. God bless anyone who tries to invade the USA…

Crime Rates Falling
The most stunning in all of this is that we have not seen an increase in crime, murder rates have fallen across most of the USA and Americans have shown that they can be trusted with firearms ownership. This is directly in contrast to what the national media and gun control supporters would have us believe.
http://www.ammoland.com/2009/09/04/1000000-guns-added-to-american-homes/

Maybe MORE GUNS = MORE MORALITY. Obviously if the crime rate is falling at the same time that gun sales are soaring than either guns have little to do with morality or they increase it.



The Asians might have a hard time taking over our country by force if we continue to have RKBA.

Remember it was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Japanese Navy who said,

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."