FBI Reports: Crime Drops As Gun Sales Soar

The FBI recently published their annual crime report for 2013, and it shows a drop in violent crime.

Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, 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. 

In January, the FBI reported record breaking gun sales for 2013.

The FBI has released new statistics on NICS background checks showing 2013 gun sales hit a new record. The total number of background checks conducted for gun sales last year add up to 21,093,273, beating the previous 2012 record of 19,592,303 by 1,500,970. 

"Liberals" claim that more guns = more crime, and therefore we need to ban guns.  If we do, their "thinking" goes, our country will become a gun-free, crime-free utopia.  You know.  Like Russia.  If "Liberal" "logic" was accurate, crime would have increased, in 2013.  Was that an aberration?  Not even close.

Gun ownership has increased steadily in the US for years.

Source: The Truth About Guns

Violent crime steadily decreased in the US since it's peak in the early '90s.  Homicides in which the killer used a gun dropped by 49%.

At the same time, concealed carry laws improved to the point that, today, all 50 states have some form of concealed carry on the books.

By 2014, the percentage of people living in the Red states, with no possibility of even applying for a permit, has declined to zero. Illinois’ 2013 reforms ended the problem of states not even having a process theoretically available. (The problem persists in DC, but this chart is only for states.) 

As of January 2014, about 2/3 of the population lived in a Green state, with a Shall Issue licensing statute. 

Purple states (concealed carry is allowed without need for a permit) have increased from Vermont only in 1986 to several states comprising about 4% of the population. Currently, the Purple states are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Vermont, and Wyoming (residents only). 

The Yellow states (arbitrary permitting) were the national norm in 1986, but they are now outliers. Unless the 9th Circuits’ decision in Peruta is overturned, California and Hawaii will have to become Shall Issue states. 

This will leave Yellow states at less than 1/7 of the U.S. population.

I do not claim that more guns = less crime.  "Liberals" do claim, however, that more guns = more crime.  To logically make that claim, "Liberals" need to explain why crime in the US continues to decrease as gun ownership continues to increase.

I've never met one that can.