5 Gun Control Arguments We Are Tired Of Hearing

5. More guns mean more crime

Do more guns mean more crime? That’s what gun control advocates often argue.

Once again, the data does not agree.

There were approximately 310 million guns in the U.S. in 2009, by 2013 that number had jumped to 357 million, according to a Union Leader article, which used data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

So, violent crime and murder rates must have risen accordingly, right? Not so much.

The FBI released data that shows violent crime and murder rates in America have declined since the 1990s. The murder rate nationally was 8.2 per 100,000 people in 1995. That number was nearly cut in half by 2014, to a rate of 4.5 murders per 100,000 people.

“Even as a certain type of mass shooting is apparently becoming more frequent, America has become a much less violent place,” Max Ehrenfreund of The Washington Post and Wonkblog wrote in a 2015 piece.

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