Turns out, most Americans, however, don’t know that gun crime has been halved over the past 30 years.  Because America’s mainstream news media is nothing more than a propaganda arm for progressive interests — and gun control is and will always be one of the holy grails of Utopian progressivism.

Either that, or they simply misheard good, honest reporting from the objective and neutral press, or are reacting rather foolishly to the overdetermined gun crime depicted by anti-gun Hollywood to sell shows and theater tickets.

Now.  I suppose I could have quoted from any number of sources, but using Mayor Bloomberg’s Bloomberg media seems comfortingly appropriate here. “Majority of Americans Overstate Gun Violence Levels”:

The rate of gun-related murders has dropped by almost half since the early 1990s, even though more than eight of 10 Americans wrongly say otherwise, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.

The report, released amid a nationwide debate over whether to enact new measures to curb firearms violence, shows that gun- related deaths peaked in 1993 at seven deaths per 100,000 Americans before descending rapidly to 3.8 deaths per 100,000 by 2000. By 2010, Pew found, the rate had fallen to 3.6 deaths per 100,000 people.

Yet 56 percent of Americans say gun crime is higher than it was in 1993, while 26 percent said it’s the same, according to the survey released yesterday by the Washington-based group. Just 12 percent told Pew the rate was lower.

“Despite national attention to the issue of firearm violence, most Americans are unaware that gun crime is lower today than it was two decades ago,” the study said.

The mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school in December boosted support for gun-control legislation, according to another Pew poll, taken in January. Legislation supported by the White House that would have tightened background checks for gun purchases was defeated in the U.S. Senate last month; Democrats are trying to revive the measure.

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Almost two-thirds of women surveyed by Pew were likely to be mistaken in thinking that long-term gun crime had increased; about 46 percent of men thought the numbers had been climbing.

About half of adults older than 30 and more than 60 percent of minorities also erroneously believed gun crime has climbed, Pew said. Forty-four percent of adults younger than 30 and 53 percent of whites thought firearms-related violence has been increasing.

“It’s interesting that some of the groups least likely to be victims of gun-related crime are most likely to say that the numbers are up,” said D’Vera Cohn, a Pew senior writer and co- author of the report.

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There were 3.6 gun-related homicides per 100,000 people in 2010, a 49 percent decrease from the 7 killings per 100,000 recorded in 1993. The rate of non-fatal violent crimes committed with a gun fell during the same period to 181.5 victims per 100,000 people, down 75 percent from 725.3.

Blacks, who make up 13 percent of the population, accounted for 55 percent of firearms-related killings in 2010, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data analyzed by Pew.

I wonder if the fact that the vast majority of the gun crime involving blacks occurs in urban areas, much of that in cities promoting some of the nations toughest gun control laws, can teach us something.  Like, for instance, that it sucks to be poor and black and, on top of that, prevented by the government from defending yourself or your family against those who don’t seem to particularly interested in following the government’s gun laws — and who manage to access firearms even where law-abiding citizens are prevented from doing so.

Once again, as a 2nd-Amendment advocate, I ask the (majority liberal, upper-class white busybody) gun-control advocates — Chris Matthews among them — why they hate poor black people?

And of course, helpless, undefended school children.  But that goes without saying.

(h/t JHo; Mark Levin show)