FBI figures released this week for 2023 revealed the downward trend for crime continued last year from its peak in 2020. But to the certain frustration of anti-gun forces, more and more Americans lined up to purchase firearms.
In fact, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) has logged over a million hits a month for 47 consecutive months.
This, of course, is counterintuitive to those who lecture law-abiding citizens that more guns equate to more violence. This mantra, as clearly shown by the latest FBI data, is demonstrably false.
How much did crime fall despite the nation being “awash” with firearms?
FBI data through the end of 2023 showed that murders saw a 13% decline from 2022, violent crime fell 6% and there was a 4% drop in property crime reports.
According to former CIA analyst Jeff Asher, “It suggests that when we get the final data in October, we will have seen likely the largest one-year decline in murder that has ever been recorded.”
This information was gleaned from some 13,000 law enforcement agencies with jurisdictions covering roughly 82% of the U.S. population. And there is historical precedent to back up the obvious connection between higher rates of gun ownership and lower crime rates.
Gun sales skyrocketed in 2013 with an astounding 21,093,273 background checks conducted. And according to the FBI, both violent and property crimes decreased during the first six months of 2014 — the exact opposite of what anti-Second Amendment advocates want the public to believe.
More guns, they preach, will lead to the resurrection of the Wild West, Blood will flow on the streets and chaos will rule supreme. Only, hard facts forcefully contradict this rhetoric.
The truth is that it’s law-abiding citizens who are purchasing nearly all these firearms. Those committed to lowering crime rates should focus on those perpetuating these acts and not the good people defending themselves.
After all, if their logic was correct, 2023 should have been a year of skyrocketing violent crime.
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