Gun Control & RKBA

dscntnt: infer that, when you say that "we had far fewer deaths," you mean that the death rate dropped.
Death rates by year per 100,000 of population:
Year Rate
1994 6.21
1995 5.54
1996 4.94
1997 4.54
1998 4.00
1999 3.64
2000 3.62
2001 3.52
2002 3.77
2003 3.82
2004 3.65
2005 3.85
2006 3.94
2007 3.87
2008 3.63
2009 3.37
2010 3.22
2011 3.18
As you can see the death rate continued to drop after the AWB expired in 2004.

Huh? What the rest of us see is that gun death rate did indeed rise after the awb expired in 2004; get bifocals.
however, since the Clinton years also saw the decrease in gun ownership rates, from 35% personal to 25%, and 45% home ownership to 35%, the drop in gun owner rate probably played a bigger role in the reduction in violent crime and murder rates.