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Old 09-23-2006, 07:17 PM  
Joe Citizen
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Originally Posted by spunkmaster
Naturally, anti-gunners will downplay the downward trend in violent crime since 1991, and focus on the fact that the FBI's report showed a 1% increase in total violent crime, and a 2% increase in murder in 2005, compared to 2004. But those changes are miniscule, compared to the huge decrease in crime over the last 14 years.
No the anti-gunners will point out the actual firearm statistics instead of misrepresenting the data.

For example in 2004 the number of victims of firearm violence was 331,630 but in 2005 it rose dramatically to 477,040. In 2004 the percentage of firearm violence as a proportion of all violent incidents was 6%. In 2005 this rose to 9%. A staggering increase.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/...onfataltab.htm

So yes, more guns = more gun violence.

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