{"id":62381,"date":"2020-12-03T14:46:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62381"},"modified":"2020-12-03T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:46:52","slug":"62381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62381","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

SKYROCKETING MURDERS IN MAJOR CITIES UNDERSCORE GUN CONTROL DISASTER<\/a><\/p>\n

BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 Skyrocketing murder rates in several major American cities with strict gun laws offer hard evidence that gun control isn\u2019t just a failed policy, it\u2019s a disaster, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.<\/p>\n

More than 700 people have been murdered in Chicago so far this year. Baltimore\u2019s total is above 335, and Philadelphia has logged more than 450 slayings. Even relatively benign Seattle has nearly doubled the number of homicides it reported for all of 2019, a fact not lost on CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. So far this year, the Jet City has seen 55 murders, while 2019 produced 28 slayings.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeattle is a textbook example of horribly failed policies,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cThe city council just slashed the police department\u2019s budget following months of civil unrest, vandalism, property destruction and rising crime. Five years ago, the city adopted a gun and ammunition tax to finance a so-called \u2018gun violence reduction\u2019 program that drove business out of the city and obviously hasn\u2019t prevented any violent crime. The city adopted a \u2018safe storage\u2019 mandate for gun owners. It has also obviously failed, and is currently being challenged in court by the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n

\u201cIronically,\u201d he noted, \u201cthe city is headquarters to a billionaire-backed gun prohibition lobbying group that has bankrolled two extremist gun control initiatives. The rising body count is proof positive their anti-gun-rights crusade has been an unmitigated failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

CCRKBA checked Seattle homicide data back more than a decade. Over the 12-year period from 2008 to 2019, the city averaged just over 24 slayings annually.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time for the gun control lobby to admit its schemes have all failed, and for the city, and the state, to change course dramatically,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cLaws that penalize honest citizens while being ignored by criminals don\u2019t accomplish anything and they should be scrapped.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeattle anti-gunners like to boast about how progressive they are,\u201d he observed. \u201cIf doubling the number of murders is their idea of progress, maybe we should all go back to living in log cabins.\u201d<\/p>\n

CCRKBA Director of Operations Julianne Versnel said there may be a \u201csilver lining\u201d to Seattle\u2019s foolish response of cutting police funding and pushing stricter gun control.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople living in adjoining communities will see criminals going into Seattle to commit crimes,\u201d she said, \u201cand leave suburbs alone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SKYROCKETING MURDERS IN MAJOR CITIES UNDERSCORE GUN CONTROL DISASTER BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 Skyrocketing murder rates in several major American cities with strict gun laws offer hard evidence that gun control isn\u2019t just a failed policy, it\u2019s a disaster, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. More than 700 people … 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":[48,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62381","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=62381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62382,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62381\/revisions\/62382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}