Ok.
Sorry. Carry guns, I will defend your right to do that with my last breath! I am a proud NRA member, but I am calling bull**** on this.
Why? I work in policy analysis and have a graduate degree in policy, including analytic research.
BULL****! Almost every single marker we have continues to show crime falling markedly since the 1980's.
Example: LA - Crime has fallen 6% since 2006 and more than 50% since the 1980's (the Crack epidemic).
NY, has seen a continued decline across every level in crime since the 1980's.
I could go on, but I won't kill you with math. You continue to use the same tired and perpetually bantered about argument, which simply does not hold water.
At the same time, over the past 20 years, that crime has show an almost continuous decline all across the country, gun ownership per capita continues to fall.
Therefore, I can tell you, there appears to be no correlation between individual gun ownership and crime.
Now. Look, I defend you right to carry. But what doesn't help the movement to support freedom to bear arms is using bull**** arguments. I work for a GOP member for Congress and I see/hear this daily. What you just said is usually told, almost word for word, by gun rights supporters on a daily basis. Then, they wonder why no one believes them and wants to take their guns away.
If you premise your argument on KNOWN fallacies, and refuse to accept you are selling bull****, people simply stop seeing your point of view as valid.
Instead of continuing to spout bull****, lets get back to the whole point of America and the Bill of Rights. Freedom. Freedom from Government intrusion. I collect, care for and love to study firearms. It isn't about crime control, because it isn't.
In the Wild West, when most people carried guns, CRIME WAS exponentially WORSE per capita. Private ownership of guns, does not decrease crime. Nor does in INCREASE.
What decreases crime is an effective police force. The decrease in crime the Nation over is closely associated to improvements in an area's policing force. Pay your cops well, give them a nice budget, and you will see a decrease in crime.
Anyway. Sorry. I had to.