Meanwhile, violent crime in the US has dropped by about half in the past 25-30 years or so. This trend began before the Clinton gun ban, coincides with a trend toward relaxing firearm carry restrictions, and was unaffected by the sunset of the Clinton ban. High crime rates are associated most with the consequences of prohibition laws. It's almost like freedom cannot be shown to correlate with increased crime...
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It could also be argued that the drop is unrelated to gun legislation but instead related to demographics. An aging population tends to commit fewer violent crimes.
While the cause is likely a combination of many factors, the undeniable fact is that the predictions of hoplophobes about the consequences of liberty have been completely wrong.
Kudos to Jeff Cooper for coining hoplophobia.
Kudos to you for getting the reference!
Yeah let's pretend there's no correlation between gun laws and mass shootings and gun homicide rates in America
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html
The US isn't a homogeneous whole. Violent crime rates don't correlate to firearm ownership the way you think. Yellow journalism is alive and well, unfortunately.
If you bothered to read, you'd find out the correlation between gun ownership and gun deaths is not only strong for the USA as a country but also when you see the picture at the state- and town/city-level. You'd also find links to studies showing a correlation between gun control laws and reduction of gun deaths. Have a good day.