More Guns Less Crime: Liberal Report Inadvertently Finds that Gun Violence is Trending Down while Gun Ownership is Trending Up

From [HERE] No doubt that when The Trace posted an article purporting to show that 150 cities were showing “one of the greatest drops in gun violence—ever,” it unintentionally destroyed one of the greatest gun control myths—ever—in the process: that more guns in private hands would result in more carnage and death.

Authored by Trace reporter and editor Olga Pierce, this remarkable report acknowledges, “The downward trend cuts across red and blue cities and states in every region of the country.”

But this downward trend comes at a time when more Americans own more guns than probably any other time in recent history. Twenty-nine states have adopted “Constitutional Carry” laws which do away with a licensing requirement, and that may increase to 30 states in mid-November when North Carolina lawmakers hold a veto override vote on Senate Bill 50, that state’s permitless carry bill, according to a report at TheGunMag.com. That vote is now scheduled Nov. 17.

More than 21 million citizens are licensed to carry and many states have reciprocity agreements, enabling armed residents from one state carry in other states on their own state’s license/permit.

None of this is lost on Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the grassroots Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, who noted Monday in a statement to the press, “For a couple of generations, we have seen one gun control myth after another used as excuses to restrict our Second Amendment rights. Yet here we are, at a time when those rights are being gradually restored, when states have adopted Constitutional Carry laws, more people own guns and more people are legally carrying them for personal protection, and The Trace acknowledges violent crime involving guns is declining. Looks like we’ve been right all along, and the anti-gun media essentially just admitted it.”

The Trace is the online pro-gun-control news publication backed by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg, founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Everytown for Gun Safety. The Trace article says it is an “analysis by The Trace’s Gun Violence Data Hub.”

As written by Pierce, “The downward trend includes red and blue cities, in both red and blue states, in all of the country’s regions. It includes cities where shootings are traditionally sky-high, like Baltimore, and much safer cities, like Austin, Texas.”

Later, Pierce writes, “While it is worth noting that cities in the Deep South, for example, tend to have much higher rates of per-capita gun violence than cities in the blue states on the coasts, many of them have seen violence spike and then sharply decline in recent years, just like cities everywhere else.” [MORE]