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Source: Forbes
Despite what you’ve heard, Gun Crime is down by 49% in two decades
In the bizzaro world that we live in, you’d think that with the recent increase in gun purchasing, there would be a rash of gun violence across the country. The data simply does not support the media impression.
Pew researchers observed that the huge amount of attention devoted to gun violence incidents in the media has caused most Americans to be unaware that gun crime is “strikingly down” from 20 years ago. In fact, gun-related homicides in the late 2000s were “equal to those not seen since the early 1960s.”Yet their survey found that 56 percent believed gun-related crime is higher, 26 percent believed it stayed about the same, and 6 percent didn’t know. Only 12 percent of those polled thought it was lower.
