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Behold; I give you the least surprising news of the day

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From The Washington Times
By Emily Miller

Gun-control advocates are noticeably silent when crime rates decline. Their multimillion-dollar lobbying efforts are designed to manufacture mass anxiety that every gun owner is a potential killer. The statistics show otherwise.

Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that violent crime decreased 4 percent in 2011. The number of murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults all went down, continuing a pattern.

“This is not a one-year anomaly, but a steady decline in the FBI’s violent-crime rates,” said Andrew Arulanandam, spokesman for the National Rifle Association. “It would be disingenuous for anyone to not credit increased self-defense laws to account for this decline.”

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"[E]very gun owner is a potential killer." Yeah? So is every automobile driver; and much more likely to kill, too. Also, seems to me that every non-gun owner is a potential defenseless victim.

I know I'm preaching to the choir, here; but heck, that's who sings my song.

That doesn't make any sense because another recent article said that crime is going down because of factors like our population is getting older and the threat of jail time is turning off people from committing crimes. I wish the media would get their stories straight so they can tell me what to think without contradicting themselves.

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"These droids are not the ones your searching for."

The lobbying efforts of ANYONE should be view with suspicion. Usually it's an effort to pick my wallet clean.