Washington Examiner's David Freddoso: "More Guns, More Crime? Not In 2009"

David Freddoso writes that the stories "of skyrocketing gun sales dominated the headlines earlier this year, with the number of gun-purchase background checks in the first six months of 2009 soaring 25 percent over the same period in 2008. Yet as the NRA points out today, murder in the U.S. has plummetted to a 46-year low (with the largest year-over-year drop since the 1960s) even as gun ownership has risen to an apparent all-time high. Meanwhile, across the pond, gun crime in Britain has risen 89 percent since the UK banned guns in 1997. Some may jump too far in there conclusions, but we can at least say this: There is no evidence from the U.S. experience this decade that higher rates of gun ownership lead to more crime, nor from the British experience this decade that fewer guns translate to less crime." Tweet