Monday, May 23, 2005
It is time to repeal the District`s gun laws. Just consider a few statistics: Five years before the D.C. Council banned nearly all firearms in 1976, the District`s murder rate fell from 37 to 27 per 100,000 people. In the five years after 1976, the murder rate rose to 35 per 100,000 people. Between 1976 and 1991, the D.C. homicide rate rose 200%. The national homicide rate during the same 15-year period rose just 12%.
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Friday, December 13, 2024
Last week, the anti-gun attorneys general of Minnesota and New Jersey filed nearly simultaneous lawsuits against firearm maker Glock, essentially claiming the company was violating the laws of those states by making guns that are too easy to illegally ...
Monday, December 16, 2024
Predictably, gun control activists are citing the cold-blooded Manhattan murder of health insurance executive Brian Thompson to call for more gun control, particularly in the hot-button areas of “ghost guns” and “3D printed firearms.”
Monday, December 16, 2024
The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) has released the latest in its series of annual reports on trends in concealed carry permits in America.
Monday, December 16, 2024
Violent crime in New York City has been a growing concern over the last few years.
Monday, December 9, 2024
NRA-ILA routinely points out that it is more informative to watch anti-gun politicians and officials’ behavior than to listen to the platitudes they spew about enacting gun control to protect the public.
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