Obama Lies with Gun Control Myths

The Preliminary F.B.I. Uniform Crime Report, January-June 2013 figures indicate that, as a whole, the law enforcement agencies throughout the nation reported a decrease of 5.4 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for the first 6 months of 2013 when compared with figures reported for the same time in 2012. The violent crime category includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. 

The number of property crimes in the United States from January to June of 2013 decreased 5.4 percent when compared with data for the same time period in 2012. Property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Arson is also a property crime, but data for arson are not included in property crime totals. Figures for 2013 indicate that arson decreased 15.6 percent when compared to 2012 figures from the same time period.

Hot on the heels of the Heller Supreme Court decision (June 26, 2008, Heller v. District of Columbia), former co-anchor of ABC's 20/20, honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club, nineteen-time Emmy Award winner John Stossel, dispels the deceptive, pervasive gun control myths that he once held himself--All in less than five minutes.

Time: 4:56

For forty to forty-five percent of Americans, guns offer very little mystery or intrigue. They are inanimate objects; simple tools. Yet, for the majority of Americans, unfamiliarity leaves them easily persuaded by a bewildering political barrage of redundant malarkey.

Why does Obama and other anti-gun zealots continue to scream about crime running rampant as they deny citizens the right to bear arms in the face of these lower F.B.I. statistics? These numbers consistently have been lowering year after year as gun sales have climbed and more guns are in the hands of citizens.

This drop in crime has been in spite of kids playing hideous computer war games, watching violent Hollywood movies and the breakdown of family units and personal values. The counter-weight argument is that citizens are taking an active personal roll in their own protection for physical safety against criminals that has been a tremendous deterrent--the F.B.I. numbers prove it out too.