- Gun prohibition has much the same effect as drug or alcohol
prohibition. It would increase the price but not limit the availability
of guns for those who really want them. One of the effects, for example,
of banning cigarettes in prisons is to create a booming trade in
contraband tobacco.
- Within a few years of DC passing a gun control law so stringent that
it was recently ruled in violation of the Second Amendment, the war on
drugs was launched by Ronald Reagan. In the years that immediately
followed the murder rate doubled despite the gun law.
- The killer was mentally deranged and driven enough to have easily
obtained a gun even if there were gun prohibition.
- Since 1993 the U.S. handgun murder rate has decreased 48 percent while
the number of privately owned handguns in America has increased by more
than 20 million
- Culture is a far more important factor in violence that gun ownership.
There are more guns per-capita in Maine than in any other state save
possibly Alaska. About 50,000 Mainers have permits to carry concealed
weapons. Yet Maine has a crime rate one-third below the national
average. Maine has one or two fatal gun accidents a year, lower than the
death rate for snowmobiling or boating. These figures -- which reflect
those of certain high gun-ownership countries such as Sweden, Norway and
Switzerland -- suggest that the culture of a society affects the
problems caused by guns more than the guns themselves. Introduce guns to
an inherently violent community and you'll get more violence. Introduce
guns to an inherently lawful society and the crime rate drops. In 2004
the South, on the other hand, had a murder rate 57% higher than the
Northeast.
- Forty-six percent of all those dying of gunshots in 1997 were between
the ages of 15 and 34. Presumably guns work mechanically the same way
for this age group as they do for others, thus something other that
safety would appear to be involved.
- Treating gun laws as a national issue exacerbates cultural conflict,
such as those between rural and urban, east and west, wealthy and not so
well off. Telling rural Westerners to get rid of their guns is like
telling urban blacks to stop reading African-American books.
- John R. Lott has pointed out that "less than one out every thousand
times people use guns defensively is the attacker killed. Ninety-eight
percent of the time, simply being able to brandish a gun is sufficient
to cause a criminal to break off an attack and the two percent of the
time when guns are fired, the vast majority of those are warning shots.
It's something like less than one-half-of-one percent of the time is the
gun fired in the direction of the attacker. Even when they do hit,
woundings are much more frequent than times when the attacker is
killed."
- A Justice Department study, conducted from 1993-1995 tracked 4,000 boys
and girls aged 6 to 15 in Denver, Pittsburgh, and Rochester, NY.
According to the study:
Children who get guns from their parents don't commit gun crimes (0%),
while children who get illegal guns are very likely to do so (21%).
Children who get guns from parents are less likely to commit any kind of
street crime (14%) than children who have no gun in the house (24%) and
are dramatically less likely to do so than children who acquire an
illegal gun (74%).
Children who get guns from parents are less likely to use drugs (13%)
than children who get illegal guns (41%).
"Boys who own legal firearms have much lower rates of delinquency and
drug use [than boys who get illegal guns] and are even slightly less
delinquent than non-owners of guns," the study reported.
- The Columbine killers violated at least 17 existing state and federal
weapons control laws.
- In 1997 it was reported that Americans use guns defensively around 2
million times each year, five times more frequently than the 430,000
times guns were used to commit crimes that same year. And 98 percent of
the time, simply brandishing the weapon is sufficient to stop an attack.
MORE ON GUNS
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prohibition. It would increase the price but not limit the availability
of guns for those who really want them. One of the effects, for example,
of banning cigarettes in prisons is to create a booming trade in
contraband tobacco.
- Within a few years of DC passing a gun control law so stringent that
it was recently ruled in violation of the Second Amendment, the war on
drugs was launched by Ronald Reagan. In the years that immediately
followed the murder rate doubled despite the gun law.
- The killer was mentally deranged and driven enough to have easily
obtained a gun even if there were gun prohibition.
- Since 1993 the U.S. handgun murder rate has decreased 48 percent while
the number of privately owned handguns in America has increased by more
than 20 million
- Culture is a far more important factor in violence that gun ownership.
There are more guns per-capita in Maine than in any other state save
possibly Alaska. About 50,000 Mainers have permits to carry concealed
weapons. Yet Maine has a crime rate one-third below the national
average. Maine has one or two fatal gun accidents a year, lower than the
death rate for snowmobiling or boating. These figures -- which reflect
those of certain high gun-ownership countries such as Sweden, Norway and
Switzerland -- suggest that the culture of a society affects the
problems caused by guns more than the guns themselves. Introduce guns to
an inherently violent community and you'll get more violence. Introduce
guns to an inherently lawful society and the crime rate drops. In 2004
the South, on the other hand, had a murder rate 57% higher than the
Northeast.
- Forty-six percent of all those dying of gunshots in 1997 were between
the ages of 15 and 34. Presumably guns work mechanically the same way
for this age group as they do for others, thus something other that
safety would appear to be involved.
- Treating gun laws as a national issue exacerbates cultural conflict,
such as those between rural and urban, east and west, wealthy and not so
well off. Telling rural Westerners to get rid of their guns is like
telling urban blacks to stop reading African-American books.
- John R. Lott has pointed out that "less than one out every thousand
times people use guns defensively is the attacker killed. Ninety-eight
percent of the time, simply being able to brandish a gun is sufficient
to cause a criminal to break off an attack and the two percent of the
time when guns are fired, the vast majority of those are warning shots.
It's something like less than one-half-of-one percent of the time is the
gun fired in the direction of the attacker. Even when they do hit,
woundings are much more frequent than times when the attacker is
killed."
- A Justice Department study, conducted from 1993-1995 tracked 4,000 boys
and girls aged 6 to 15 in Denver, Pittsburgh, and Rochester, NY.
According to the study:
Children who get guns from their parents don't commit gun crimes (0%),
while children who get illegal guns are very likely to do so (21%).
Children who get guns from parents are less likely to commit any kind of
street crime (14%) than children who have no gun in the house (24%) and
are dramatically less likely to do so than children who acquire an
illegal gun (74%).
Children who get guns from parents are less likely to use drugs (13%)
than children who get illegal guns (41%).
"Boys who own legal firearms have much lower rates of delinquency and
drug use [than boys who get illegal guns] and are even slightly less
delinquent than non-owners of guns," the study reported.
- The Columbine killers violated at least 17 existing state and federal
weapons control laws.
- In 1997 it was reported that Americans use guns defensively around 2
million times each year, five times more frequently than the 430,000
times guns were used to commit crimes that same year. And 98 percent of
the time, simply brandishing the weapon is sufficient to stop an attack.
MORE ON GUNS
http://prorev.com./guns.htm
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