2aguy
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- Jul 19, 2014
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Why wouldn't obama be prosecuting gun crimes at the federal level…..well that is easy…he needs the gun crime rate to go up so he can push more gun control…..same tactic as he used in FAst and Furious in Mexico….
All Talk: Fewer Gun Crime Prosecutions Under Obama than George W. Bush - Breitbart
Yet TRAC Reports shows that prosecutions for gun violations actually began a decline in 2013. In fact, prosecutions in 2013 were lower than 2012. Gun crime prosecutions were even lower in 2014 and actually hit an all-time low for the Obama administration in 2015. For example, “during fiscal year (FY) 2014 the Justice Department said the government obtained 20.3 weapons convictions for every one million people in the United States… [and that dropped to] 19.1 weapons convictions for one million people in the United States during FY 2015.”
To put it another way, FY 2015 represents a 15.5 percent drop in prosecutions from 5 years ago and a 34.8 percent drop from the midway point of Bush’s eight years in office.
It is interesting to note that these reductions in gun crime prosecutions have correlated with an ever increasing push for more gun control. In fact, in January 2013—the very month in which Obama called for an increase in gun crime prosecutions—Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was being tapped for a gun control push, and Gabby Giffords’s gun control PAC Americans for Responsible Solutions was founded. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America had formed in the prior month, and this meant January, February, March, and the first two weeks of April witnessed a gun control push unlike any other in American history.
All Talk: Fewer Gun Crime Prosecutions Under Obama than George W. Bush - Breitbart
Yet TRAC Reports shows that prosecutions for gun violations actually began a decline in 2013. In fact, prosecutions in 2013 were lower than 2012. Gun crime prosecutions were even lower in 2014 and actually hit an all-time low for the Obama administration in 2015. For example, “during fiscal year (FY) 2014 the Justice Department said the government obtained 20.3 weapons convictions for every one million people in the United States… [and that dropped to] 19.1 weapons convictions for one million people in the United States during FY 2015.”
To put it another way, FY 2015 represents a 15.5 percent drop in prosecutions from 5 years ago and a 34.8 percent drop from the midway point of Bush’s eight years in office.
It is interesting to note that these reductions in gun crime prosecutions have correlated with an ever increasing push for more gun control. In fact, in January 2013—the very month in which Obama called for an increase in gun crime prosecutions—Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was being tapped for a gun control push, and Gabby Giffords’s gun control PAC Americans for Responsible Solutions was founded. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America had formed in the prior month, and this meant January, February, March, and the first two weeks of April witnessed a gun control push unlike any other in American history.