Proof: More guns = less crime ~ By Joseph Farah

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By Joseph Farah Posted: January 16, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 There it was. Good news on New Year's Day on the front page of the Washington Post. "Homicide totals in 2009 plummet in District, Prince George's," the headline read. In a story that likely got lost amid the holiday revelry, the paper reported that the nation's capital in 2009 experienced its lowest number of homicides in 45 years. In case you can't do the math real quick, that previous year would be 1964. And for those too young to remember, 1964 was pretty much the end of an era. It was before the riots, before the Vietnam War was seriously escalated to become a national dividing point, before the drug explosion. So what happened in Washington, D.C., in 2009 that might account for such a dramatic decline in homicide deaths? Hmmmmm. Let me see. Nothing comes to mind. Oh, wait a minute! Wasn't 2009 the first full year following the overturning of Washington's gun ban by the Supreme Court in the Heller case? Could that have something to do with it? Apparently the Washington Post newsroom didn't think so. It was not even mentioned in the New Year's Day story – not even as an afterthought. That should tell you something about the political culture and worldview in elite newsrooms of America's major metropolitan newspapers. But think about it! Once again, we have more real-life evidence of the theory so well articulated by John R. Lott in his breakthrough book, "More Guns, Less Crime." READ FULL STORY >