{"id":39180,"date":"2020-02-29T06:07:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T12:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=39180"},"modified":"2020-02-29T06:07:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T12:07:37","slug":"39180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=39180","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun Owners Cause Peace- the amazing experiment in Richmond, Virginia proves the media wrong.<\/a><\/p>\n

The mainstream media tells us that guns cause crime. The media shows us night after night that guns are bad. We see it in their \u201cnews\u201d and in their Hollywood dramas. We recently conducted another massive public experiment and the results contradict the media\u2019s story about guns. We put tens of thousands of armed men and women on the street in one small area. The rate of crime dropped precipitously when these armed civilians were there. Guns brought peace. Let me show you what happened.<\/p>\n

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Virginia Capital on Second Amendment Rally Day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Twenty-five-to-fifty thousand people came to the Virginia Capital on one morning to lobby the legislature. Once they filled the capital grounds, they overflowed into the streets in every direction.<\/p>\n

A few thousand people deliberately disarmed to enter the capitol building. I can\u2019t prove that everyone else was armed, but the vast majority of them were since this was a second-amendment protest. Judging from the pictures I\u2019ve seen and the people I\u2019ve talked to, for each person who was not armed at the rally, there was another person who carried multiple firearms. Call it one gun per person in round numbers.<\/p>\n

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Show us your badges- Virginia Gun Owners Rally Day in Richmond<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I couldn\u2019t find reports of violent crime in the area of the protests when I searched the news and police records. The protesters even brought trash bags and left the city streets cleaner than they\u2019d found them. The single reported arrest I could find was of a counter-protester.<\/p>\n

Video from ground level-\u00a0https:\/\/t.co\/NXZPwDxpPG<\/a><\/p>\n

This peaceful gathering isn\u2019t a surprise once you study the record of legally armed civilians in the US. We\u2019ve seen this phenomenon before and I\u2019ve seen it with my own eyes. I routinely stand in a room with twenty-to-thirty thousand armed individuals. I\u2019ve done that over a dozen times and the results are uniformly boring.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never seen violence at those sites. I\u2019ll go a step further and say that people are polite and there is very little conflict of any kind. We\u2019ve searched police records and the rate of crime drops in every city when that many gun owners gather together. A public experiment on that scale is a sociologist\u2019s dream come true.<\/p>\n

Honest gun-owners bring peace rather than crime and conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is remarkable when we gather that many gun owners together, and we conduct that experiment for free year after year. You could argue that we conduct a similar experiment every day when these honest gun owners return home and go about their lives.. armed. We are there day after day, but concealed is concealed, and you never see us.<\/p>\n

That leaves an obvious question unanswered. Ask yourself why the media continues to sell the lie that guns and legally armed citizens cause crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Gun Owners Cause Peace- the amazing experiment in Richmond, Virginia proves the media wrong. The mainstream media tells us that guns cause crime. The media shows us night after night that guns are bad. We see it in their \u201cnews\u201d and in their Hollywood dramas. We recently conducted another massive public experiment and the results contradict … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39181,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180\/revisions\/39181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}