Posted on 01/23/2014 11:00:14 AM PST by rktman
It’s not just guns that can lead to violent crimes. People can still find ways to commit violent acts despite tight gun control laws. The weapon of choice is being focused on when we should be looking at the person who committed the crime. We should be looking at the lives of these criminals and what could have potentially caused them to do these horrific things.
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While I believe an armed society is a polite society, I also think gun control or the lack thereof has little or no impact on crime stats.
The big driver of crime stats is the available number of criminals a locale has. The difference in crime between Chicago and Montpelier VT is not the level of gun control. VT just doesn’t have many criminals with or without gun control.
It’s high time for criminal control.
And if you look at some of the worst criminal controlled hell-holes in the country you will find them all in democrat controlled areas, usually near streets named “Martin Luther King Boulevard”
This is a kind of Chicken-Or-Egg conundrum. What came first, gun control or criminals? The areas that have a lot of one always seem to have a lot the other.
I have studied this for four decades. Guns in the hands of responsible people tend to have a small, but measurable effect on reducing crimes.
The biggest predictor of crime rates is culture. Crime rates tend to be similar in cultures derived from the same base, around the world.
Cultures that have high crime rates are those that do not have an expectation that the rule of law will be enforced in any meaningful way. Cultures that expect enforcement of the rule of law have much lower crime rates.
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