My support for gun ownership rights is not universal and unqualified.

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15. The reality is that despite the skyrocketing sale of firearms in recent years ...

gun violence in our nation has NOT increased. In fact it has decrease significantly from the peak two decades ago.

Gun violence in US has fallen dramatically over past 20 years, Justice Dept. report finds
Tuesday May 7, 2013 12:50 PM

By Pete Williams, NBC News chief justice correspondent
Gun violence in America has fallen dramatically over the past two decades, and the number of murders committed with a firearm is down too, though guns are still by far the leading type of crime weapon, according to a new report from the Justice Department.

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Murders committed with a gun dropped 39 percent to 11,101 in 2011, from a high of 18,253 in 1993, according to the report.

Other crimes committed with guns were down even more sharply — from 1.53 million in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011, a drop of 70 percent, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/07/18108298-gun-violence-in-us-has-fallen-dramatically-over-past-20-years-justice-dept-report-finds?lite