Do the cities with strict gun control? They do not, they have the highest rates.
I don’t believe in any gun control laws. None. The Amendment says ‘’The right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed’’.
The Politicos in Chicago complain that the Guns used in Violent Crime there come from outside the City.
They never ask themselves why the areas outside the City don’t have the same Violent Crime Rates as Chicago does.
Down here in the GUNSHINE state, with all the a**holes on the road there’s a bigger danger of getting in a car wreck, particularly with a drunk or druggie, or some bimbo too preoccupied with texting her BFF about the crazy sex she had the night before than facing the business end of a gun, let alone being shot. When we took the firearms safety courses, and since we’ve been going to the range I realized if driving safety was taken half as seriously as gun safety our insurance premiums would be like chump change.
One could write a book similar to David Kopel’s 1992 one that compared a few countries and their firearms laws (and related histories) with the United States about the varying regions of the U.S. and their firearms laws and related histories and cultures pertaining to firearms ownership.
It would be interesting to contrast and compare Northern New England (Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire) the Atlantic states (New York, Mass, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland, Delaware, etc), Texas (a state that likely deserves a chapter of its own), the Old South (FL, GA, VA, WV, TN, LA, AL, MO, etc), the Old West (PA, OH, MI, IN, IL. MN, IA, and KY), Pacific (CA, WA, OR, HI, and AK), and New West (OK, AZ, NV, NB, ID, WY, ND, SC, and MT).
Too much data and statistics for me. Would like to see John Lott reply, especially since the article quotes from his book.
The homicide rate may be rising in some U.S. cities, but slayings are still a localized phenomenon, with most U.S. counties not seeing a single homicide in 2014.
The vast majority of homicides occurred in just 5 percent of counties, and even there the murders were localized, with some neighborhoods untouched by the violence, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Crime Prevention Research Center.
“I just think most people have a real misunderstanding about how heavily concentrated murders are,” said John R. Lott Jr., the author of the study. “You have over half the murders in the United States taking place in 2 percent of the counties.”
How is this relevant when criminals don’t obey laws? The only thing driving crime rates is the number of available criminals a locale has.
Colonial America had gun laws. Americans were actually required to HAVE guns back then!
Stricter gun laws are a response violent crime that never actually works. They should all have sunset provisions like the failed federal ban on semi automatic rifles.
"Once one accounts for the average pre-existing differences in homicide and suicide rates across states and the average annual changes in those deaths from year-to-year, stricter gun laws are associated with more total deaths from homicides and suicides."
(Emphasis added.)