I thought all those guns meant crime would be through the roof. The way crime is covered in the news you’d sure think it was.

But according to the FBI:

Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout the Nation reported a decrease of 5.5 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for 2009 when compared with figures reported for 2008. The violent crime category includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The number of property crimes in the United States in 2009 decreased 4.9 percent when compared with data from 2008. Property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Arson is also a property crime, but data for arson are not included in property crime totals. Figures for 2009 indicate that arson decreased 10.4 percent when compared to 2008 figures.

This is terrible, terrible news for the Bradys and other gun control groups.

It must be sad needing bad things to happen so that you can get what you want. Rather than being glad violent crime is down, you have to worry about spinning the news so that you’re still relevant.

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