Democrats Lie Through Their Teeth About Gun Crime at the DNC

As Democrat after Democrat took the convention stage Wednesday night to deliver a sermon on gun violence, they kept repeating an age old lie about gun crime that was debunked recently by these pesky little things called … facts.

A new report published by the University of Pittsburgh “confirms what gun rights advocates have said for a long time,” the Washington Post reports. Namely, that lawful gun owners are not responsible for the large, large majority of gun crimes and therefore new gun control measures would only serve to burden those lawful gun owners.

According to Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post:

[Researchers] found that in approximately 8 out of 10 cases, the perpetrator was not a lawful gun owner but rather in illegal possession of a weapon that belonged to someone else.

More than 30 percent of the guns that ended up at crime scenes had been stolen, according to Fabio’s research. But more than 40 percent of those stolen guns weren’t reported by the owners as stolen until after police contacted them when the gun was used in a crime.

More so, based on past research, the vast majority of gun dealers do not have any guns used for criminal activity. In fact, says Ingraham, only “1 percent of dealers accounted for nearly 6 in 10 crime gun traces” in a 2000 study.

Here’s the bottom line: Gun owners and gun dealers are NOT the problem. New gun control legislation taking guns out of the hands of good guys will only serve to make America less safe. (For more from the author of “Democrats Lie Through Their Teeth About Gun Crime at the DNC” please click HERE)

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