One year after the Heller decision, the Washington Times notes that not a single legally acquired handgun has been used in a crime, was stolen, or has even been illegally discharged.
In fact, violent crime in the city has actually decreased, albeit by a negligible amount. Nevertheless, the legally owned firearms certainly didn't add to the crime rate, and their presence might just have given the town's criminal thugs a moment or two of pause before they committed their next home invasion robbery.
Once again, the hysterical predictions of "blood running in the streets" by anti-gun organizations such as the Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center have all come to naught, just as they have in all of the states where peasants have been allowed to reclaim their rights of gun possession and public carry for self-defense.
Another factoid that ol' Sarah won't tell you - of the 40 states with "shall-issue" firearm carry permit policies, none have ever repealed them for any reason, which further demonstrates that responsible, law-abiding citizens aren't the problem when it comes to gun crimes in America - criminals (who don't abide by any laws whether firearm-related or not, by the way) are responsible for those particular statistics.
(h/t to Dave Hardy at Of Arms and the Law for calling our attention to the Times article)
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