President Obama surely didn’t intend it, but he deserves some credit for last year’s 7.4 percent drop in murder rates. His election caused gun sales to soar, and crime rates to plummet.
While gun sales started notably rising in October 2008, sales really soared immediately after Mr. Obama won the presidential race. 450,000 more people bought guns in November 2008 than bought them in November 2007, that’s over a 40 percent increase in sales. By comparison, the change from November 2006 to November 2007 was only about 35,000. Over the last decade, the average year-to-year increase in monthly sales was only 21,000.
The increase in sales continued well beyond November 2008. From November 2008 to October 2009, almost 2.5 million more people bought guns in the 12 months after the election than in the preceding 12 months. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, doesn’t tell us how many guns each person bought just the number of people who bought them. Most likely though, gun sales rose by more than the number of people who purchased them.
At the same time gun sales were soaring, there was an unusually large drop in murder rates. The 7.4 percent drop in the murder rate was the largest drop in murder rates since the 1999. For those who don’t remember, 1999, when President Bill Clinton and Columbine occurred, was another time when gun sales soared. With people such as Elena Kagan serving as Mr. Clinton’s deputy domestic policy adviser were pushing hard for more gun control, Americans were worried that more gun bans were coming. And in response gun sales soared.
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America wake-up! If we don't stop this Marxist(Anti-Messiah) takeover, Bible prophecy will be coming to dinner with you sooner than you would like to think! This is exactly the "Beast" described in Revelation! It's anti-messiah and they even acknowledge that fact! Could this September 9th mark the beings of Jacob's trouble? We're talking about 3 1/2 years of being tortured America! Right here in our own country! I suggest that you try to find all that you can about the "weatherman movement" to overthrow our government started in the 60's that Charles Manson actually tried to copy! It's here folks and still from Chicago! The weathermen are now in Africa! Why? Don't believe that it isn't happening because it is! In fact, I seriously doubt that this will be allowed to be printed because, as Glenn Beck reported, our government controls all media reports since 1912!
Thanks obama for making thousands buy guns for the up and coming revolution !!!
Thats right Criminals now know if they break in to someones home they may not be leaving.
Is that BarryO's credit, NO.
As well many of the criminals now have staff jobs at the WH or are Czars working for BarryO,
so they have a job or you could say they are still robbing the American public, just in a suit.
I do believe there is a revolution coming. Thomas you are correct there are more criminals in Dc than on the streets of this country!!!!!!
Hey, folks, are ya' gonna' line up and turn in your guns and ammo to Hillary and the UN? I certainly hope the patriots and Oathkeepers out here really mean what they say. If Soetoro is allowed to continue dismantling this country bit by bit, we will get what we deserve. There is still time to stop the insanity and clean up the traitors' messes … either way, we are going to go through some rough times. Soetoro was "chosen" by the Bilderberg Group to bring us down, and Hillary was promised the SoS job to step aside. They needed a dysloyal, anti-American, trained monkey to do their global governance bidding. Now we have to deal with it .. soon!!