A Most Problematic Chart for the National Socialist Democrat Party

Every day and in every way, the far left Democrat Party tries to sell the American people wildly fraudulent bills of goods.

Climate change can be controlled by giving the government more of our money.

The entire health care market can be fixed by giving the government complete control of the system.

And ISIS terrorists can be contained by giving the government our guns.

Of course, the the reality is very different indeed.

The chart above was inspired by a similar one featured by Max Ehrenfreund in his recent Wonkblog post titled “We’ve had a massive decline in gun violence in the United States. Here’s why.” In contrast to the widely embraced narrative, perpetuated by liberal politicians and the media, that gun violence in America is getting worse all the time, the data reveal that the exact opposite is true. According to data retrieved from the Centers for Disease Control, there were 7 firearm-related homicides for every 100,000 Americans in 1993 (see light blue line in chart). By 2013 (most recent year available), the gun homicide rate had fallen by nearly 50% to only 3.6 homicides per 100,000 population.

Ehrenfreund says that “Even as a certain type of mass shooting is apparently becoming more frequent, America has become a much less violent place. Much of the decline in violence is still unexplained, but researchers have identified several reasons for the shift.” He then points to factors explaining the decline in violent crime in general and gun homicides in particular, including more police officers on the beat making greater use of computers, a decline in alcohol consumption, less lead exposure, and an improving economy.

But there’s another possible reason for the decline in gun violence overlooked by Ehrenfreund – the significant increase in gun ownership, illustrated above by the dark blue line in the chart. Based on data from a 2012 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report (and additional data from another Wonkblog article “There are now more guns than people in the United States“), the number of privately owned firearms in US increased from about 185 million in 1993 to 357 million in 2013.

Of course, since the editors of The New York Times are so hell bent on confiscating the weapons of private citizens, I hope they are willing to walk the talk and therefore serve on the front lines of the seizure attempts.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.