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The falling violent crime rate (FBI figures) in the U.S., seems to coincide with the adoption by almost all states of right to carry laws and the amazing increase in firearm sales.  I'd say it looks like some of the idiots are getting the message already.

"Gun Ownership Rises to All-Time
High,
Violent Crime Falls to 36-Year
Low

Violent crime decreased six percent between 2009 and 2010, including a
four percent decrease in murder and a ten percent decrease in
robbery.¹ Since 1991, when violent crime peaked, it has decreased 47
percent to a 36-year low. Murder has fallen 51 percent to a 46-year
low.²At the same time, the number of guns that
Americans own has risen by about 90 million. Predictions by gun control
supporters, that increasing the number of guns, particularly handguns and
so-called "assault weapons," would cause crime to increase, have been proven
profoundly lacking in clairvoyance.⁴

More Guns: There are well over 250 million
privately-owned firearms in the U.S., including nearly 100 million
handguns and tens of millions of "assault weapons"—the types of firearms that
gun control supporters have tried the hardest to get banned⁵—and the
number of firearms typically rises about 4 million per year.⁶ Annual
numbers of new AR-15s, the most popular semi-automatic rifle that gun control
supporters call an "assault weapon," are soaring. In 2008, there were more than
337,000 new AR-15s configured for home defense, competition, training,
recreational target practice and hunting.⁷ NRA-supported Instant
Check firearm transactions have increased over 10 percent annually since
2006.⁸

Less Gun Control:Over the last
quarter-century, many federal, state and local gun control laws
have been eliminated or made less restrictive. The federal "assault weapon" ban,
upon which gun control supporters claimed public safety hinged, expired in 2004
and the murder rate has since dropped 10 percent. The federal handgun waiting
period, for years the centerpiece of gun control supporters` agenda, expired in
1998, in favor of the NRA-supported national Instant Check, and the murder rate
has since dropped 21 percent. Accordingly, some states have eliminated obsolete
waiting periods and purchase permit requirements. There are now 40
Right-to-Carry states, an all-time high, up from 10 in 1987. All states have
hunter protection laws, 48 have range protection laws, 48 prohibit local gun
laws more restrictive than state law, 44 protect the right to arms in their
constitutions, 33 have "castle doctrine" laws protecting the right to use guns
in self-defense, and Congress and 33 states prohibit frivolous lawsuits against
the firearm industry.<sup>9</sup> Studies for Congress, the Congressional
Research Service, the Library of Congress, the National Institutes of Justice,
the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention have found no evidence that gun control reduces crime.<sup>10</sup>
The FBI doesn`t list gun control as one of the many factors that determine
the type and level of crime from place to
place.^11"

For the accompanying reference notes, go to this article at:

 http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=206&issue=007

And another cretan is removed from the gene pool:

http://savannahnow.com/latest-news/2012-01-06/police-make-third-arrest-wendys-robbery#.TwiH7ZgdXap

Notice that Wendy's is saying the manager will keep his job (hell yes).

The comments are pretty interesting too.

Typo.   I didn't mean "cretan".  That would be someone from the Greek island of Crete.  I meant to type "cretin".   But thinking about it, there should be some way we can exchange our cretins for cretans.