[marktwain]

When people who have not studied the issue make the claim that Europe is safer because of gun control, here is a good way to refute them. European murder rates are lower because Europe has different demographics from the U.S., not because of gun control laws.

[conservaterian]

This will change soon in Europe with the muzzie takeover. Wonder what the rate of rape among muzzies in Europe is, compared to U.S. rate.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

INCONVENIENT FACT: According to no less an authority than the peer-reviewed Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, countries with stringent gun control laws have higher murder and suicide rates than those without.

DOCUMENTATION: “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser, Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, pages 649-694. (To download a PDF copy of the journal article, simply Google the title. It is available on the web free of charge.)

QUOTE FROM ARTICLE: “If you are surprised by our findings, so are we. We did not begin this research with any intent to “exonerate” handguns, but there it is — a negative finding, to be sure, but a negative finding is nevertheless a positive contribution. It directs us where not to aim public health resources.”

INDIRECTION: The trick hoplophobes always use is to say that America has higher gun-murder rates than other countries, but many of those “murders” are criminals killed in the act of committing violent crimes. Compare absolute murder rates, and the result is “more guns, less murder.” (Source: GunFacts.info);

SECOND INCONVENIENT FACT: According to DOJ crime statistics, guns are used by US citizens 2.5 million times per year to prevent violent crimes like rape, robbery, home-invasion and carjacking, 99% of the time without a shot being fired. (Source: GunFacts.info)

THIRD INCONVENIENT FACT: “Assault weapons” (AKA semiautomatic rifles) are used in less than 1% of gun crimes. (Source: GunFacts.info)

QUESTION: If gun-free zones make people safe, then why don’t we declare the immediate vicinity of the President and Vice-President to be gun-free zones and send the Secret Service home? Or are gun-free zones good enough for our kids, but not good enough for our overlords?

METAPHOR: America has more private gun ownership than most other countries, so naturally there are more gun murders. America also has more hospitals than most other countries, so naturally we have more people dying in hospitals. Does that mean we should outlaw hospitals?

[Theoria]

'The 1.52 per 100,000 murder rate is right in the middle of the murder rate of developed European countries. '

LOL. The article took minorities out of the equation to try and equal the numbers with Europe! Yet, the article didn't take away the 'minorities' in the equation for Europe.

Europe would have even lower numbers. England, France, Netherlands, etc would all have lower numbers as well.

[FreedomPoster]

Bfl

[TurboZamboni]

Racial Murder Statistics the Left and Others don’t want you to know
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2864689/posts

Race vs Race
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl06.xls

Offenders by Race
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl03.xls

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/race.cfm

JUSTICE dept figures! See charts...

In 2005, offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites

From 1976 to 2005 —

* 86% of white victims were killed by whites
* 94% of black victims were killed by blacks