RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 5-9-2013 | Rush Limbaugh
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RUSH: Earlier this week... Is this Thursday already? It is. We had news
earlier this week -- in fact, it might have been yesterday; if not yesterday,
the day before -- about the falling numbers of gun deaths and gun crimes. I
think it was yesterday. It's striking. The amount of murders with guns since the
mid-1990s is plummeting. I think they're down 39%, and overall crimes with guns
are down 69%.
This is the LA Times, by the way. The story was the American people don't
know this. The American people think that crime with guns is on the uptick, and
they think this because of the focused coverage in places like Aurora, Colorado,
and the Gabby Giffords incident, and Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown,
Connecticut. (I'm getting it confused with the hurricane location.) Anyway, they
think gun Drive-By Media is just going through the roof, and it's not.
Gun crime is down.
Now, here's a headline in the Christian Science Monitor: "With Gun Violence
Down, is America Arming Against an Imagined Threat?" Oh, yeah! "You people are
arming up but the threats that you feel out there are imaginary. You've got no
reason to be arming up. Gun crime is down. Murders with guns are way down. What
are you doing, arming up? What are you doing buying all those guns? You got no
business doing this!"
The Monitor: "Mass shootings, frantic gun-buying, and more Americans legally
carrying guns on the street all point to a country fighting a gun violence
epidemic, right? Not necessarily. As part of a broader trend of declining crime,
gun violence in America -- while still high relative to other Western countries
-- has dropped by 49% from 1993 to 2011, while nonfatal gun crimes dropped by
69%, according to the US Justice Department.
"But that slow-motion decline in Americans turning guns on each other has
failed to register with most people, only 12% of whom answered the question
correctly when asked by the Pew Research Center in a poll released Tuesday. Some
56% of respondents said they believed that gun violence had actually increased
over the last 20 years. ... 'The gun prohibition lobby has long promoted this
idea that reducing the number of guns is a good idea, that fewer guns are better
categorically,' says Dave Kopel, a research analyst at the Independence
Institute in Denver.
"'But here we have a real world experiment which shows the opposite, where we
have a huge decline in gun crime at the same time as there's been an enormous
increase in the firearms supply in the United States. It doesn't prove that the
increase in gun numbers or licensed carry caused the decline, but it sure does
contest the simplistic theory ... that more guns equal more crime.'" Now, I
don't think that the Christian Science Monitor -- I don't think the left
intended this correlation.
I think when they put this story out, "Gun crime is way down, so there's no
reason for you to have a gun," was what they wanted to convey. "Gun crimes and
murders with guns? It's way down since the nineties! What business do you have
buying a gun? You don't need to be buying guns! You're arming up over an
imagined threat." What the media doesn't get is, as the American people have
"armed up," gun crime as fallen, dramatically, 49 and 69%. That's gun crime and
gun murders.
Gun violence is down as gun ownership has increased and concealed carry
permits have, too. "With Gun Violence Down, is America Arming Against an
Imagined Threat?" The media and the headline writer here at the Christian
Science Monitor are saying, "You people with guns, you people are actually nuts!
You're wackos. I mean, you're out there, you're buying all these guns, and
there's no threat. Gun crime is down. You're arming up against an imagined
threat.
Even when they go talk to the guy from the Independence Institute in Denver
who points out, "You know what? Isn't it strange that as Americans have 'armed
up,' as you say, gun crime has plummeted?" Because the left loves to say that
all these guns out there, and all that ammo out there, "Why, that's just gonna
increase gun crime!" It's just the exact opposite. I have to laugh here because
the Drive-Bys thought they were on to something, and they don't even see the
correlation.
Now, "The paradox provides a poignant backdrop for a national gun debate that
had primarily Democrats but also key Republicans pushing for more gun controls,
including expanded background checks, in the wake of a string of mass
murders..." Why do people think that gun crime is up? That's obviously clear.
It's because of the media attention and focus on these mass shootings. Do you
know that mass shootings are down, too?
Amazingly so. You go back all the way to the forties and fifties, and you
will see that mass shootings, like at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown or
whatever, are down. They don't happen nearly as much as they used to. But in the
past they didn't get the media coverage they get today, saturated media coverage
-- and we don't just get coverage of the event. After each event we get weeks
and weeks of hand-wringing on TV. "Oh, my Lord, woe is us! How terrible this is,
Rush! Why are these people doing this? We've gotta get guns off the street," and
it's just the opposite.
It's just the exact opposite.
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