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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MeanMugginFool" data-source="post: 190455" data-attributes="member: 8033">Actually, the crimes rates have pretty much been the same over the last four years, and violent crimes and murders have actually gone down in the same time period.  Certain areas of the country have seen an increase, but overall it is down.  I personally have no problem with someone owning a gun for self defense, as long as they take safety courses to learn how to handle a gun properly and also store the gun in a safe place so that a child does not find it and have the ability to play with it.  Makes me sick to hear stories about kids playing with guns that are just lying around loaded and someone gets shot accidentally.</blockquote>