Gun Crime Rises - No New Surprises

A Firm Grasp Of The Obvious: "Professor Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University said the rise in gun violence was particularly troubling.

'A major police effort to confiscate guns helped bring down the surge in violent crime that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s,' Blumstein said. 'But gun distribution is easier now because we have begun to back off gun control.'
Backed by the National Rifle Association, the Bush administration has been cool toward gun control measures."

Though I want to have guns. Just as many as the cops.