{"id":580853,"date":"2010-05-26T23:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/crime-statistics-debunk-gun-opponents-claims-ccrkba-says\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T23:01:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T03:01:22","slug":"crime-statistics-debunk-gun-opponents%e2%80%99-claims-ccrkba%c2%a0says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/580853","title":{"rendered":"Crime Statistics Debunk Gun Opponents\u2019 Claims, CCRKBA\u00a0Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Handcuffs_1961_19799463_0_0_7043957_300.jpg\" alt=\"Crime statistics debunk gun opponents' claims, CCRKBA says \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Despite gun opponents&#8217; warnings that easier access to guns leads to escalating violence, the most recent statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) suggest that crime in the United States dropped dramatically in 2009. <\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data from the Uniform Crime Report shows that the violent crime rate went down 5.5 percent nationwide in 2009. This covers all four categories of violent crime: murder, robbery, aggravated assault and forcible rape. Violent crime went down 4 percent in metropolitan counties and 3 percent elsewhere, according to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>This has prompted gun rights organizations, such as the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), to point out that these positive trends are taking place despite the evidence&mdash;also cited by the FBI&mdash;that gun and ammunition purchases are up. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;There are more guns in private hands than ever before, yet crime rates have declined&#8230;this means that gun prohibitionists have been consistently wrong,&quot; said CCRKBA chairman Alan Gottlieb. <\/p>\n<p>He added that these data suggest that &quot;America should turn its back on the gun prohibition lobby and their insidious policy of victim disarmament.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, the decline has continued for the third straight year, and this year&#8217;s drops were steeper than those registered in 2007 and 2008, despite the recession. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19799463-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19799463\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite gun opponents&#8217; warnings that easier access to guns leads to escalating violence, the most recent statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) suggest that crime in the United States dropped dramatically in 2009. Preliminary data from the Uniform Crime Report shows that the violent crime rate went down 5.5 percent nationwide in 2009. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}