NRA-ILA :: Brady Campaign Flunks Math Again!.

On January 12, the FBI released preliminary crime date for calendar year 2008, indicating that the nation’s murder rate has fallen to a 43-year low, and the nation’s total violent crime rate has fallen to a 35-year low. The data suggest that since violent crime peaked in 1991, the nation’s murder rate has fallen 46 percent, and the nation’s total violent crime rate has fallen 41 percent. The FBI will publish final data for 2008 later this year. In the same time frame, federal, state and local gun control laws have been eliminated or made less restrictive, Americans have been buying over 4 million new guns every year, and the number of guns (including semi-automatic and other firearms that use standard magazines that hold more than 10 rounds) is at an all-time high. Less gun control has coincided with less crime. Pretty simple stuff. For most people, that is.