Violent Crime Rate Continues to Drop
DOWN 37% OVER PAST 20 YEARS . . .The FBI has released its annual Crime in the United States report, revealing that the country in 2013 saw the violent crime rate fall another 5.1 percent from the previous year, so it is now at its lowest since 1978. Delving a little deeper, the murder and manslaughter rate fell 4.4 percent to the lowest level since 1968. The continuing decrease in violent crime -- down 37.4 percent over the past 20 years -- comes at a time when firearms ownership has increased across America, a fact that utterly contradicts the mantra of anti-gun groups that more guns equals more crime.