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Remember, their idea of "gun safety" is "don't own a gun". Virtually all of their policies are predicated on the idea that you can't reduce crime unless you reduce gun ownership... which is contradicted by the dramatic decline in violent crime since the early 1990's.
In 1980, California and Florida both had their highest homicide rates in history; 14.5 per 100,000 people. Violent crime in CA was 893.6 per 100k, while in FL it was even higher at 983.5.
By 2017, CA's homicide rate had dropped to 4.6 while FL's was slightly higher at 5.4. 2/
By 2017, CA's homicide rate had dropped to 4.6 while FL's was slightly higher at 5.4. 2/
When it came to violent crime overall, however, Florida's had fallen from 983.5 to 430.3 per 100k, slightly LOWER than California's violent crime rate, which had dropped from 893.6 to 449.3 per 100k. 3/
California has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country, and roughly the same crime rate as Florida, a state where there are more than 1,000,000 individuals with their right-to-carry license and strong protections for the 2nd Amendment. 4/
But what about gun ownership rates? According to CBS, CA had one of the lowest gun ownership rates in the country at 19.8 percent. FL's gun ownership rate was far higher, at 32.5 percent. Legal gun ownership, besides being a constitutional right, is not a driver of crime. 5/5
