Got your solution right here, dear...
Posted on 11/19/2010 12:45:10 PM PST by pabianice
Massachusetts retained its status as the most violent state in the Northeast, according to a report released Tuesday morning by public health advocates and based on statistics compiled by the FBI.
In its biennial report that studies health care trends in the state, the Massachusetts Health Council said approximately 30,000 violent crimes were committed in Massachusetts in 2009 or 456 violent crimes per 100,000 people, making it the highest per capita crime rate in the Northeast.
The report looked at the six New England states, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The violent crimes include murder, manslaughter, rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault.
While the rates of some crimes remained the same, rape and attempted rape rose 27 percent from 2008-2009 in Massachusetts, the report found.
“We really need to do something about violence,” said Susan Servais, executive director of the Massachusetts Health Council, a non-profit, non-partisan statewide organization of more than 150 governmental and voluntary agencies.
According to the report, violent crime in Massachusetts rose by less than 1 percent over 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Anti gun laws are so counterintuitive. By definition criminals don’t obey laws, so the goal of disarming criminals cannot be achieved.
The more democrats a state has the more violence they have.
Got your solution right here, dear...
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
Most of the violence takes place in minority areas.....
just sayin
You would think that the country learned something from Prohibition back in the 1930’s.
The law-abiding folks stopped their alcohol consumption. The law-ignoring folks kept right on drinking. And the criminal gangs made money.
Same thing with gun control.
This can’t be possible. We have PG County and Baltimore City down here in Maryland... surely those two jurisdictions, as well as our anti-American gun laws, must put us on top!
Meh...New Hampshire has progressed to machetes...
As high as the violent crime rate is in gun-outlawing Massachusetts (457 per 100,000 people), it is significantly lower than many gun-friendly states like Alaska (633), Arkansas (508), Florida (612), Louisiana (620), Missouri (492), Neveda (702), New Mexico (619), Oklahoma (501), South Carolina (671), Tennessee (668), and Texas (491).
My point is that you can’t draw the conclusion that have drawn from the statistic that you cite. When you look at the stats for all states, you will find that some gun-hating states have high violent crime rates and some have very low violent crime rates. The same can be said about the gun-loving states. I suspect that the violent crime rate has more to do with demographics, than gun laws.
racist
sarc/
Interesting that one of the largest firearms manufacturers S&W is anchored in that cesspool
You have to think like a communist. Guns make people independent. Violence makes them afraid and dependent—so the answer is more control over the lives of the citizens, for their own sakes of course. So more violence, more fear, more government. More government is the goal. Guns get in the way. Violence good; guns bad.
A quick wild guess analysis to explain would be that Alaska has more men than women, the several southern states have more illegals, and the others might be related to education levels. That ought to get someone mad. Sorry in advance, total speculation. Demographics probably drive the numbers more than gun laws, but that said I think the correlation I'd be interested in is the per capita rate of concealed carry to violent crime.
You have to think like a communist. Guns make people independent. Violence makes them afraid and dependent—so the answer is more control over the lives of the citizens, for their own sakes of course. So more violence, more fear, more government. More government is the goal. Guns get in the way. Violence good; guns bad.
Gun control = slavery.
It’s a little like the left’s economic strategy. Implement a seemingly innocuous economic intervention to correct a perceived problem——>bigger problem——>insecurity——>more goverenment
I’ll put Kennesaw Georgia crime stats against any Liberal Massachusetts city the same size.
So their answer is to bring gun control to OTHER states.
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