. >> there are terrorists, home invaders, drug cartels, carjackers, knockout gamers, rapers, haters, campus killers, airport killers. john: he goes on and on, and those things have happened, and there are good reasons why people should be allowed to have guns, but it upsets me to see the head of the nra hyping this stuff. >> crime is declining. violence is declining all around the world to an extraordinary extent. the number of rapes, the number of murders, you know, going down steadily in countries like the united states, and the number of people killed in warfare globally was the lowest in the last decade of any decade since records began. that may not feel like it tos you in the west because of iraq and afghanistan, but it was true globally that we are seeing much less violence around the world. john: and yet, if you survey people and ask them if that's true, i would think most would not believe that. >> because we were constantly being told about the violence happening and not told about the gradual trend towards less violence of all kinds. >> finally, matt. many people envy the