"HISTORICALLY LOW"?

Fred Thompson on his blog yesterday, criticizing Rudy Giuliani and the city of New York for gun-control efforts:

Ironically, all of this comes at a time of historically low violent crime rates and historically high gun ownership rates nationally.

Washington Post, June 2007:

The number of violent crimes in the United States rose for a second straight year in 2006....

Creating your own reality? I guess it's just something Republicans can't stop themselves from doing.