Va. gun crime drops again as firearm sales soar

[beevul]

Va. gun crime drops again as firearm sales soar

Posted: Sunday, August 4, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 2:04 pm, Mon Aug 5, 2013.

BY MARK BOWES
Richmond Times-Dispatch


Gun-related violent crime continues to drop in Virginia as the sales of firearms continue to soar, a pattern that one local criminologist finds interesting “given the current rhetoric about strengthening gun laws.”

Major gun crime collectively dropped for a fourth consecutive year statewide, while firearms sales climbed to a new record in 2012 with 490,119 guns purchased in 444,844 transactions — a 16 percent rise over 2011, according to federally licensed gun dealer sales estimates obtained by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Looking back over seven years, total firearm sales in Virginia have risen a staggering 101 percent from 2006 to 2012, while gun-related crime has dropped 28 percent during that period.

“This appears to be additional evidence that more guns don’t necessarily lead to more crime,” said Thomas R. Baker, an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs who specializes in research methods and criminology theory.


http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/va-gun-crime-drops-again-as-firearm-sales-soar/article_a9a3cd36-dc50-5192-9b97-e14258e6168a.html

This seems rather at odds with the "more guns = more death" meme and/or variations of it, that is so often seen hereabouts.

[ileus]

1. Firearms are intended to protect lives...

As a Virginian I'm pretty happy with our firearm laws. There are many progressive steps we can still take to make us a more 2A friendly state but baby steps are needed.


Oh and this is a duplicate thread.

[beevul]

2. Wheres the first one? n/t

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. Maybe this one???

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172130186

[Jenoch]

4. I got banned from bansalot because

I accidently pointed out that their thread on this subject was a duplicate. I didn't even do it on purpose. It was posted in the lateste threads and I clicked on it by mistake.

[oneshooter]

5. Welcome to the club.

You make an even 24 people banned. There are 25 people trashing Bansalot and only 122 subscribers.







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[Jenoch]

6. I made another mistake.

The duplicate thread was the one abiut allowing 18, 19, and 20 year-olds to purchase handguns from FFLs. I'm not even a big advocate for that change in the law. I did not notice that I was in their safe haven. I wasn't even being disruptive. I merely posted that the thread was a dup. They must have inferred much more than I intended.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. Has some of this taken place in GD?

GD is now offline.

[Jenoch]

8. I got to that thread from Latest Threads.

You can get to GD by going through your My Posts button and going through a GD thread, however it appears that GD gas now reappeared on the Forums and Groups list.