CA: More Burglars Shot, Less Burglaries. Who Knew?

Gun Watch ^ | 17 December, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[The_Reader_David]

Or

Less burglary.

I actually like the poetics of using burglary as a collective noun for the activity, rather than the more prosaic fix of correctly using fewer applied to the plural.

[SaraJohnson]

I was told by the police chief in a town I lived in that when your house is empty, make it appear like you are home with light timers. Thieves shop for houses to hit and they don’t want to be confronted by homeowners.

They don’t want to be confronted by homeowners because they are in danger of being killed.

[Kenny Bunk]

...... vandalize a car, throw a brick through a window, paint graffiti on a wall, drive aggressively, participate in a fistfight, use drugs, illegally carry a firearm... all that every single day....

Yes, but that was before FR gave me an outlet!

[TangoLimaSierra]

Or

Less burglary.

Yes, like less traffic but fewer cars.

[Kenny Bunk]

Classic example of a logical theorem called:

"Lucus a non Lucendo."

Or literally, "it is called a grove of trees because it does not shine".

So, "Despite vicious redneck bible-thumping gun-hugging homeowners shooting more burglars, obtusely upsetting our prediction mantra of "more guns=more crime," it cannot be a "crime rate reduction" because there are fewer crimes, which are the substance of crime reduction. Therefore, as night follows day, there can be no statistical reduction in crime without crime data.

Quite simple really. To believe otherwise is racist, gender normative, eurocentric, patriarchal, imperial,hegemonic thinking.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“Guns lower the recidivism rate. About six feet.”

[BobL]

“Despite the unusually high number people shot in burglary attempts, residential burglaries have gone down 28 percent compared to last year in the period between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30.”

Line like that let us really GET INSIDE THE HEADS of liberals. Another one, that I always like to point out, and pops up every few hears goes something like this:

“Despite a record number of people in jail, the crime rate continues to fall in the United States.”

They (the left-wing reporters) really cannot understand what they’re writing...or they wouldn’t even write it.