Proof: More guns does NOT lead to more crime.

[Racer88]

I just created this combination of graphs and posted on my Facebook feed (my bully pulpit!). Feel free to share!


There's an aphorism in science that goes, "Correlation does not prove causation, but it can DISprove causation."

It is often said, "More guns means more crime." It certainly sounds plausible on the surface. And, it's been repeated SO often, it's accepted as "common sense / truth." And, we have been subjected to the Fallacy of Misleading Vividness as a result of increased media coverage and public awareness of violent acts. We see it more often, so we THINK it's happening more often. It's not.

But, if we look at the actual facts... the actual numbers, it's not true. The violent crime rate in the United States has PLUMMETED. It's not just trending downward a little. It's "dropping off a cliff." On the other hand, firearm sales (in the same period) have SKYROCKETED. Because of our legal system, these numbers aren't speculative. They are cold hard, verifiable fact.

Admittedly, we cannot posit that "more guns means less crime" as a matter of causation. It is still correlative. Proving causation is a very high scientific bar.

But, we CAN absolutely stipulate that "more guns does NOT mean more crime." As the aforementioned aphorism (gotta love alliteration!) said... Correlation can DISprove causation, as it has here.

Moments ago, I superimposed two charts to demonstrate the correlation of decreasing violent crime and increasing firearms sales in the U.S. (over the same time periods). The source of both sets of statistics is the FBI.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Gun control has nothing to do with reducing crime. It is purely about power and control. Limiting the access of weapons only to a special cadre of trusted enforcers and privileged political elites.

In order to enact this kind of restriction, the sheep must be convinced to go with the program. Even the most stupid of the statists knows better than to walk up to a suburban soccer mom and tell her: "We are the government. We can't risk having you or your fellow neighbors fighting back against us and possibly killing us when, one day, we need to forcibly drag you from your homes so that the country to whom we sold this land to can come and build their diplomatic vacation resort right over the bulldozed remains of your houses. So we need you to turn your husband's 5.56mm military style rifle, which we know he has, over to us immediately". LOL, that might not go well. So instead, they say this: "We know you value the lives of your children and your fellow neighbors and family members. Our research has concluded that when people allow dangerous weapons such as firearms to be present in their lives, there is a much higher risk of them being used against you or someone who you care about one day. So it is in your best interest to turn over to us any weapons that you or another family member may have. It is for your own good". The end result? Same thing.

Now you see the mechanism of operation behind "anti gun violence" virtue signaling?

 

[1moaoff]

Please forward to all politicians

 

[AMGtuned]

Gun control has nothing to do with reducing crime. It is purely about power and control. Limiting the access of weapons only to a special cadre of trusted enforcers and privileged political elites.

In order to enact this kind of restriction, the sheep must be convinced to go with the program. Even the most stupid of the statists knows better than to walk up to a suburban soccer mom and tell her: "We are the government. We can't risk having you or your fellow neighbors fighting back against us and possibly killing us when, one day, we need to forcibly drag you from your homes so that the country to whom we sold this land to can come and build their diplomatic vacation resort right over the bulldozed remains of your houses. So we need you to turn your husband's 5.56mm military style rifle, which we know he has, over to us immediately". LOL, that might not go well. So instead, they say this: "We know you value the lives of your children and your fellow neighbors and family members. Our research has concluded that when people allow dangerous weapons such as firearms to be present in their lives, there is a much higher risk of them being used against you or someone who you care about one day. So it is in your best interest to turn over to us any weapons that you or another family member may have. It is for your own good". The end result? Same thing.

Now you see the mechanism of operation behind "anti gun violence" virtue signaling?

Wins everything. Perfect explanation for even the slowest of laymen

 

[Flyingbullseye]

Please forward to all politicians

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[Vodoun daVinci]

Awesome chart. Taking our guns is about neutering US so that our Oligarchy owned and operated Government can subjegate US and we cannot fight back. All the Truth in the world won't stop it....Democrats and Republicans alike want US disarmed.

VooDoo

 

[FS1]

When the people who control those stats come for our guns...they will list those confrontations as crimes. Thus the crime rate will go up exponentially. JMHO