Missouri murder rate increases 16% after Permit to Buy

[billh58]

34. For clarification;

From an earlier article from Raw Story:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/17/study-missouri-murders-spike-after-state-repeals-gun-background-check-law/

“Coincident exactly with the policy change, there was an immediate upward trajectory to the homicide rates in Missouri,” Webster told BBC. “That upward trajectory did not happen with homicides that did not involve guns; it did not occur to any neighbouring state; the national trend was doing the opposite – it was trending downward; and it was not specific to one or two localities – it was, for the most part, state-wide.”

Second Amendment absolutists are quick to point out that the overall homicide rate in Missouri (and the nation) declined, but ignore the fact that the homicide rate involving guns did, in fact, increase in Missouri. Statistics indicate that gun violence and gun homicide rates remain fairly steady, or are on the increase in some areas where gun laws have been relaxed.