Tuesday, February 25, 2014
NRA's Chris Cox: Occasionally they get it | The Daily Caller
As is often said: "Facts are stubborn things"...
On the Daily Caller website, RE-LINK TEXT Chris Cox includes these in his recent article:
"A few months ago, a story by Paul Barrett was published in Businessweek entitled, 'Why Gun Control Is Basically Dead.' That story attempted to explain why gun control efforts have largely stalled, despite the fact that gun control proponents consider new restrictions 'inevitable.' Surprisingly, Barrett got it somewhat right.
We have been reporting for years that violent crime is down significantly over the past two decades. While most of the media fail to report this simple fact—or worse, give the impression that violent crime is on the rise—Barrett accurately reported that it is down 50 percent since 1993. Barrett also correctly pointed out one of the key fallacies of the anti-gun argument, 'Apart from politics, dispassionate observers must question the simplistic liberal slogan that more guns equals more crime. The U.S. has seen a two-decade period during which private gun ownership has continued to soar (some 300 million firearms are now in civilian hands), while crime has diminished.'"
