Cover of The Second Amendment
Gun murder rates have dropped by nearly half in the USA since the mid-1990's, along with other crimes, yet thanks to mainstream media, more than half of Americans believe that gun crimes have risen.
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.
The drop in gun murders, which peaked during the Clinton administration before declining under the reviled (by Leftists) Bush administration, occurred despite the fact that the USA has more guns per capita than any other nation on the planet. Further, running contrary to the image painted by the Left:
Though violence has dropped, the United States still has a higher murder rate than most other developed countries, though not the highest in the world, the Pew study noted.
Key words: most, not the highest. Such data conflict with the desire of folks like Oregon state senator Ginny Burdick and other Leftists to eviscerate, or better yet, to eliminate entirely, the Second Amendment rights of U.S. citizens. Thus, their approach is to peddle a different narrative in the hope that nobody will notice. They routinely call, for example, for "civil discourse" - which to the Left has but one meaning: see things my way. Yet they're the first to engage in ad-hominem attacks and derogatory terminology; labeling opponents "extremists" or "tea-baggers" or gracing them with other terms of endearment.
They call for "sensible" gun-control measures, which translated means that anyone who disagrees with them is an "extremist" - when in point of fact, the Second Amendment clearly states that the rights of citizens to own and bear arms shall not be infringed. The wording is unambiguous; in order to undermine it, they appeal to "sensible, common-sense" infringement - as if those who disagree with them lack common sense, and are therefore dangerous "extremists".
No, the real extremists are to be found, in virtually every case, among the Left. How else can they claim, with a straight face, that "nobody needs more than six bullets to go hunting"? That's not what they're after - yet. But since the Second Amendment doesn't refer to hunting, they're simply taking baby steps, under a false flag, to eviscerate it by convincing their gullible base otherwise.
And as the majority of "journalists" are Leftists, they play right along with intentional distortion and deception.
