‘Expert’ Explanation for Why California Still Has ‘Gun Violence’ Misses the Obvious - David Codrea - Ammoland.com

 U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Experts explain why California is still rife with gun violence despite some of the most stringent gun laws in the country,” a Thursday hit piece on the right to keep and bear arms by ABC News promises. “Many of the current laws were enacted within the past several years.” Why, indeed.

A photo included in the article gives all of us non-experts a clue: Candlelight vigil protestors with a sign that screams, “THE PROBLEM IS GUNS!”

No, of course, it is not, and you don’t need to be an expert to demonstrate why. Take the combined membership of all the national and state “gun rights” groups and you have a population of several million, arguably the most heavily-armed civilian population on the planet – and inarguably the most peaceable. Acts of armed violence attributable to their criminal activities – and rates – are virtually non-existent. With the desperate push on by the government and the “mainstream” media to smear heritage Americans as hate-filled extremists, if an NRA member were involved in an armed robbery, a drive-by, or a mass shooting, we’d know about it.

That said, a real expert has weighed in, and his findings confirm this. As noted in my previous report, economist and author John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center has a new paper demonstrating a fundamental reality those behind the citizen disarmament agenda refuse to acknowledge:

 “Murder isn’t a nationwide problem. It’s a problem in a small set of urban areas…”

To paraphrase Democrat strategist James Carville’s slogan about the economy, it’s the criminals, stupid.

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