JoeB131
Diamond Member
Nothing like today. Gun deaths and violent crime didn't start decreasing until the early 90's, as more and more states adopted CCW and Castle Doctrine laws. Prior to that, the criminals had the upper hand.
Check it out. The Homicide rate was just as high in the 70's as it was in the 1990's The dip in the 1990's had little to do with all of you compensating for your tiny dicks with guns and more to do with the fact that Boomers started aging out of the prime crime ages.
If you want to actually look at it another way, the 1990's is when Bill Clinton imposed the Brady Bill and a lot of gun control measures.
I've owned guns for the last 35 years. I've been a licensed CCW carrier for the last 12 years. In fact, I just had to renew my license and got the new one today. Statistically, we CCW carriers are the most law abiding citizens in our nation. Not only that, but we have less of a prosecution and conviction rate than even the police in our country.
Again, looking at your crazy Avi, you are probably just one incident from being a BLM poster boy.
CCW holders, using their firearm, protect themselves or others hundreds of thousands of times a year. You have to dig deep to find those stories as they are mostly local, but they are there.
Actually,
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VPC: Concealed Carry Killers
concealedcarrykillers.org
Concealed Carry Killers is a resource maintained by the Violence Policy Center that includes hundreds of examples of non-self defense killings by private citizens with permits to carry concealed, loaded handguns in public that took place since May 2007. These incidents include homicides, suicides, mass shootings, murder-suicides, lethal attacks on law enforcement, and unintentional deaths. Only a tiny fraction of these cases are ever ruled to be in self-defense. Any homicide that is legally determined to be in self-defense is documented and removed from the Concealed Carry Killers database and the ongoing tallies.