FBI: Violent crime down by 6 percent in 2010 [View All]

[Atypical Liberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44578241/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.Tnd6INTDw8p

"Violent crime dropped 6 percent in 2010, marking the fourth straight year of year-to-year declines, while property crime was down for the eighth straight year, falling 2.7 percent, the FBI reported Monday."

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"An aging population and continued high rates of imprisonment for criminals are helping to drive down crime rates, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University."

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"At the same time, the number of murders increased in major cities in the Northeast, including Boston, New York and New Jersey's largest city Newark, which all experienced double-digit increases, the statistics showed."

All of this despite record sales of firearms and ammunition over the last decade, and more and more permissive firearm laws being passed.

Kind of hard to make any kind of case that more guns = more crime. You certainly can't say that more guns = less crime, but it sure is getting hard to defend the idea that more guns will cause more crime. It is also especially interesting that the places with the strictest gun control are the places with the highest crime rates.