(GunReports.com)–Gun banners always say that their efforts will keep horrible crime rates from getting worse, because of the availability of evil guns is restricted. So, it follows that after Washington, D.C.’s gun ban was repealed last year, crime must have jumped horribly!
But John Lott says that the opposite happened.
Writing on BigGovernment.com, he said, “The District of Columbia’s murder rate plummeted by an astounding 25 percent last year, much faster than for the US as a whole or for similarly sized cities. If you had asked Chicago’s Mayor Daley, that wasn’t supposed to happen.
“The Supreme Court’s 2008 decision to strike down DC’s handgun ban and gunlock requirements should have lead to a surge in murders, with Wild West shootouts. The Supreme Court might keep Daley’s predictions in mind as they [heard] the oral arguments in the Chicago handgun ban case.
“Everyone in DC now knows that murder rates rose after the handgun ban and fell after they were removed. Unfortunately, Chicago never learned that lesson. The forthcoming third edition of More Guns, Less Crime shows that in the 17 years after its ban on new handguns went into effect, there are only two years where Chicago’s murder rate was as low as it was in 1982.”
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