Media spin: Rising crime rates a "vast right-wing conspiracy"

Violent crime remains intolerably high, but the left wants you to think that perception is just a concoction of right-wing media.

After more than a decade of violent crime decreases with just a few interludes, crime has shot back up to levels not seen since the early 1990s.

When the left acknowledges this fact, it often does so by tying the violent crime increase to the sale of guns. However, there’s no evidence that the additional crimes are being committed by law-abiding gun owners.

People are buying more guns because they feel less safe, not the other way around. As Zachary Faria wrote in The Washington Examiner, “the surge in gun sales is a response to gun crime, not the cause of it.”