Franken-Lies-And-the-Lying-Liars-Who-Tell

Well, someone did keep score. And that score was presented in the shit-for-brains
2003 editorial: "Gun violence has declined from 12% of violent crime in 1993 to 9% in the
most recent justice statistics."
But let's take a more comprehensive look at Clinton's remarkable record on crime, using
statistics from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. Violent crime had gone up nearly every
year of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. It went down every year during the Clinton
administration, especially after his crime bill went into effect. Would you like to see it in
chart form?
Now would you like to see it in a chart that, while technically accurate, is slightly and intentionally
misleading? The kind the Wall Street Journal would use?
To be fair to opponents of gun control, there were a lot of other things Clinton did to
achieve this remarkable, un-Reagan-like drop in crime rates. He put more cops on the street;
he instituted com munity policing; he aggressively enforced the Community Reinvestment
Act, which requires banks to lend money to small businesses and homeowners in underserved
communities; and, of course, he gave us the best economy in the history of the world. So