FBI says violent crime rate down again

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Source: Yahoo News

According to the numbers, all four categories of violent crime declined compared to 2008 — robbery, murder, aggravated assault and forcible rape.

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Nationwide, the murder rate was down 7.2 percent last year.

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Robbery dropped 8.1 percent, aggravated assault declined 4.2 percent and forcible rape was down 3.1 percent.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_go_ot/us_fbi_crime

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This is great news--even in the face of a bad economy, crime is falling. I hope it continues.

I can't help but be confused, however. This continues an impossible trend--as gun proliferation increases and gun laws are liberalized, we all know that crime MUST increase-- and yet it hasn't.

America has just gone on a huge, RECORD BREAKING shopping spree for guns. This after concealed carry spread across most of the country and people who weren't employed by the state or militia members carried gun on our streets. And the assault weapons ban expired. The Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center told us that these things would lead to increases in crime.

Why, after the legalization of concealed carry and the massive proliferation of weapons to those who don't work for the government or serve in militias, has crime fallen instead of risen? Why do assault weapons in American civilian hands only cause murder to rise in Mexico? Could it be that gun control theories are false, and guns in civilian hands don't lead inevitably to increases in crime? Could it even be that gun proliferation in the hands of average citizens helps crime to fall?!!

In any event, I'm glad to see the crime rates falling.