Saturday, September 18, 2010

Chart of the Day

The FBI has spoken--violent crime in America is still slowing:


source: FBI Crime in the U.S. 2009, figues

This despite the fact that a record 14 million guns were sold that year.

The fact that violent crime is down despite the recession and despite higher gun sales should make liberals' heads explode. Too bad it won't.

3 comments:

OBloodyHell said...

> should make liberals' heads explode. Too bad it won't.

It will if you point the gun correctly.

8^D

Anonymous said...

Roy says:
The single most significant factor in that falling crime rate statistic won't get mentioned either: age.

Warren said...

Simple explanation: Criminals have been inspired by President Obama and have reformed their evil ways.

Everybody knows criminals skew democratic.


http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/NYPostFelonVoting.html

"In recent academic work, Jeff Manza and Marcus Britton of Northwestern University and Christopher Uggen of the University of Minnesota estimated that Bill Clinton pulled 86 percent of the felon vote in 1992 and a whopping 93 percent in '96."

And

http://www.exodusnews.com/editorials/editorial-116.htm

And

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,441030,00.html