{"id":3035,"date":"2024-03-26T16:06:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2024-03-26T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:06:39","slug":"anti-gun-governors-mayors-are-learning-more-guns-do-not-necessarily-mean-more-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Gun Governors &#038; Mayors Are Learning More Guns Do Not Necessarily Mean More Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Firearms are displayed at a gun shop in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo\/Andrew Selsky, File)\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22340637120377-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Oregon gun store counter assault rifle AR-15\" title=\"Oregon gun store counter assault rifle AR-15\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firearms are displayed at a gun shop in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo\/Andrew Selsky, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Several of the nation\u2019s most ardent gun control activist governors and mayors of the largest metropolitans are staring down a divergent reality. They continue to stick with publicizing increasing gun control restrictions on law-abiding citizens as crime is going down in many \u2013 though not all \u2013 major cities, while gun sales continue to increase at \u201cnew normal\u201d historically high rates.<\/p>\n<p>The tired scare tactic of warning \u201cmore guns means more crime\u201d is crumbling apart as millions of law-abiding Americans are awakening to what it means to be a lawful and responsible gun owner. The streak of more than one million NSSF-adjusted FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verifications processed for the purchase of a firearm hit 55 months in February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Those firearm sales figures include significant increases in gun ownership in some of the country\u2019s bluest states and cities. In those same areas, crime has been rampant over the past several years as politicians embraced \u201cDefund the Police\u201d efforts, bail reform policies and going soft on criminals.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the law-abiding population has pushed back in a resounding way.<\/p>\n<h4>Eyes on the Big Apple<\/h4>\n<p>One city where the divergent reality is most prominently seen today is New York City. Perhaps no city has seen more dissatisfied citizens about their feeling toward public safety than the Big Apple. It was a major factor under former accidental Mayor Bill de Blasio and continues under Mayor Eric Adams. That includes a stretch in 2022 where <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/seventy-percent-nyc-residents-feel-185717093.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>70 percent<\/strong><\/a> of New York City residents felt unsafe.<\/p>\n<p>That figure hasn\u2019t improved much in the past year. The New York Times reported on a new poll showing that only <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/19\/nyregion\/new-yorkers-poll-survey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">37 percent<\/a><\/strong> of city residents felt satisfied with the level of safety in their neighborhood. The same poll found that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/19\/us-news\/less-than-one-in-three-yorkers-planning-to-flee-city-and-just-30-are-happy-with-quality-of-life-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only half of residents<\/a><\/strong> admitted they planned to stay in the city past 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are fed up with the quality of life. There\u2019s a general sense of lawlessness. You go into the CVS and there\u2019s shoplifting. People\u2019s cars get vandalized,\u201d Queens Councilman Robert Holden <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/19\/us-news\/less-than-one-in-three-yorkers-planning-to-flee-city-and-just-30-are-happy-with-quality-of-life-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a><\/strong> The New York Post about the polling.<\/p>\n<p>Despite residents still feeling unsafe in their city \u2013 particularly while New Yorkers <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/24\/us-news\/attacks-in-nyc-transit-jump-50-as-subway-murders-surge-stats\/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still face spikes in crime on the city\u2019s subway<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 two trends have overlapped to demonstrate why crime is actually falling a bit in New York City from the recent highs over the past few years: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/16\/meet-nycs-surprising-new-gun-owners-councilwoman-new-mom\/\">increases in gun ownership<\/a><\/strong> and law enforcement <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/the-nypd-seized-more-than-6000-illegal-guns-in-a-year-here-are-5-takeaways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">getting tough on criminals<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In New York City, the rampant crime of the past several years, as well as more recent events including rises in antisemitism, have contributed to large numbers of new law-abiding gun owners in the city. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/16\/meet-nycs-surprising-new-gun-owners-councilwoman-new-mom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/16\/meet-nycs-surprising-new-gun-owners-councilwoman-new-mom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African Americans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/16\/meet-nycs-surprising-new-gun-owners-councilwoman-new-mom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jewish residents<\/a><\/strong> and even a collection of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/nyc-bodega-workers-legal-guns-owners-secret-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hundreds of the city\u2019s bodega owners<\/a><\/strong> have all taken the Second Amendment into their own hands to purchase firearms. It\u2019s also led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2024\/02\/05\/nypd--overall-crime-down-in-january--but-transit-crime-jumps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>decrease in crime<\/strong><\/a> so far compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone that\u2019s out there looking to rob us, hurt us, kill us \u2013 beware,\u201d Fernando Mateo, a spokesperson for the United Bodegas of America <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/nyc-bodega-workers-legal-guns-owners-secret-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>recently said<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> \u201cYou may be walking into the wrong bodega because now we have the same firepower you have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All told, NSSF-adjusted FBI NICS verifications for the purchase of a firearm in New York have totaled nearly 1.6 million. That\u2019s a lot of new, empowered New Yorkers taking their personal safety into their own hands and not relying on delayed or understaffed law enforcement. Criminals are taking note.<\/p>\n<h4>Busting Bad Guys<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In addition to the massive number of new gun owners in the Big Apple, the falling crime rate is likely due to another logical effort that has nothing to do with placing more restrictions on law-abiding gun owners. Instead, it turns out that going after and getting tough on criminals who break the law has real, positive impacts on the city.<\/p>\n<p>The Gothamist reported on a <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/the-nypd-seized-more-than-6000-illegal-guns-in-a-year-here-are-5-takeaways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>new survey<\/strong><\/a> released by the mayor\u2019s Office of Criminal Justice and the New York Police Department that highlighted new information about what types of illegal guns police are seizing and where. The report breaks down more than 6,200 firearms that police seized between July 2020 and December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout a third of [the seized firearms] had been used in a crime and about two-thirds had not. The guns that had not been used in a crime included those seized from people who didn\u2019t have a license to possess a firearm, and weapons that people voluntarily turned over to law enforcement at gun buybacks,\u201d the report <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/the-nypd-seized-more-than-6000-illegal-guns-in-a-year-here-are-5-takeaways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a>.<\/strong> It should be noted that illegally possessing a firearm is, in fact, a crime.<\/p>\n<p>The report also demonstrated that most of the seized firearms connected to a crime came from police precincts with high crime rates, reinforcing that police know where violent criminals are, that they are using and possessing illegal firearms and that those areas deserve the most attention.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, the crime report reinforced that illegally possessed handguns are, by far, the most commonly used firearm when a crime is committed. More than <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/the-nypd-seized-more-than-6000-illegal-guns-in-a-year-here-are-5-takeaways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">70 percent<\/a><\/strong> of all the guns seized were handguns, with only <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/the-nypd-seized-more-than-6000-illegal-guns-in-a-year-here-are-5-takeaways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>eight percent<\/strong><\/a> being either a rifle or shotgun. When the report segments those guns out further to look at the \u201ccrime guns\u201d the numbers are even more telling. More than <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/the-nypd-seized-more-than-6000-illegal-guns-in-a-year-here-are-5-takeaways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>80 percent<\/strong><\/a> of recovered firearms were handguns with only <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/the-nypd-seized-more-than-6000-illegal-guns-in-a-year-here-are-5-takeaways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three percent<\/a><\/strong> being a long gun.<\/p>\n<p>This data tracks fairly closely with what the firearm industry has said for years: that the overwhelming majority of firearms used in crime are illegally obtained handguns and that, also, Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs), which there are more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/nssf-releases-most-recent-firearm-production-figures-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>28 million<\/strong><\/a> in circulation, are seldom used in a crime.<\/p>\n<h4>Not an Outlier<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>While crime is actually staying high in Washington, D.C., even though the city already implements nearly every gun control law imaginable, and a few other major cities that had notoriously soft-on-crime prosecutors or that severely cut police budgets, New York City <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/02\/12\/1229891045\/police-crime-baltimore-san-francisco-minneapolis-murder-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>isn\u2019t an outlier<\/strong><\/a>. Across the country in major cities crime seems to be trending downward in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Not all major cities can point towards new gun restrictions or gun control laws as the reason behind the decrease. But, in every state \u2013 including many of the major cities which often have Left-leaning, gun control supportive mayors \u2013 firearm sales have kept up at a blistering pace.<\/p>\n<p>With more law-abiding gun owners, and with more states like <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/louisiana-to-become-28th-permitless-carry-state\/\">Louisiana<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/south-carolina-becomes-29th-state-to-pass-permitless-carry\/\"><strong>South Carolina<\/strong><\/a> opting for permitless carry, it\u2019s abundantly clear criminals have recognized they are facing more empowered and confident residents that won\u2019t be such easy targets as victims anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2014By Matt Manda, Courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NSSF<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/anti-gun-governors-mayors-are-learning-more-guns-do-not-necessarily-mean-more-crime\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firearms are displayed at a gun shop in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo\/Andrew Selsky, File) Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 Several of the nation\u2019s most ardent gun control activist governors and mayors of the largest metropolitans are staring down a divergent reality. 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