Posted on 12/28/2004 3:23:29 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
| 'No Credible Evidence' That Carrying Concealed Weapons Laws Decrease Crime | |
| Press Release Contact: Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort P.O. Box 170393 Milwaukee, WI 53217 Phone: 414-351-9283 'No Credible Evidence' That Carrying Concealed Weapons Laws Decrease Crime According to a New Report From the National Academy of Sciences: Statement by Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort Gun Lobby Shoots Blanks on False Claims That Wisconsin Families Will Be Safer If Residents Are Allowed to Carry Hidden and Loaded Handguns in Public Places MILWAUKEE -- A new report released from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), "Firearms and Violence," found "no credible evidence" that carrying concealed weapons laws decrease crime. The gun lobby has long claimed that carrying hidden and loaded handguns on the streets and in public will make families and communities safer, despite overwhelming opposition from Wisconsin law enforcement officials and Wisconsin voters. However, the new National Academy of Sciences report casts doubt on the research underlying the claims that carrying concealed weapons laws reduces crime. Although the NAS said more data is needed to assess CCW laws, the finding that there is "no credible evidence" that concealed weapons laws reduce crime concurs with similar findings from researchers across the country. The NAS report also found no "increase" in crime as a result of CCW laws, although previously researchers at Stanford and Yale law schools did find marginal increases in crime. "One would hope this report from the National Academy of Sciences would signal the end of the relentless agenda by the gun lobby to permit carrying concealed weapons in Wisconsin," said Jeri Bonavia, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort. "Many of the most esteemed researchers and professors in this country could find no positive benefit in passing carrying concealed weapons legislation. Common sense would dictate that since Wisconsin has such a low crime rate, and CCW is soundly opposed by law enforcement officials and the public, lawmakers should focus on issues that really matter to families such as strengthening our schools and providing jobs." The report, which examined a host of gun violence prevention measures including CCW laws, called for a comprehensive national effort to collect accurate data on gun ownership and gun violence incidents in order to evaluate the effectiveness of gun violence prevention measures. The National Academy of Sciences said researchers need accurate data on the number of guns manufactured and distributed, access to crime gun trace data, and more information on patterns of gun ownership and types of weapons owned in order to adequately assess policies to reduce and prevent gun violence. Gun violence prevention organizations have long supported efforts to collect more data to implement a national public health approach to reducing gun violence, but the gun lobby in America has systematically blocked those efforts that could lead to a reduction in crime and gun violence. |
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There's no evidence whatsoever that such laws INCREASE CRIME either.....
Bottom line: policy arguments come and go. The fact is that a law abiding citizen has an inalienable right to self defense, including the right to carry. That should be enough for most people.
Exactly.
Except that it doesn't matter what is enough for most people. If my inalienable right to self defense includes using a gun to save my life then no person or group of people have the right -- nor should they have the power -- to force me to be defenseless. 911 is slow crime follow-up. Martial arts don't stop a criminal's speeding bullet.
And if I were a criminal it would be well within my mental make up to steal a gun to commit other crimes.
If a politician or bureaucrat doesn't trust me with a gun I cannot trust them to wield the power of government. They and their 911 can't defend me in the few moments that most violent crimes occur.
If they're going to force me to forego my inalienable right to self defense then should I be a victim of a violent crime they will be held accountable for failing to be there to defend me.
If they proclaim that they criminal is to fault because he didn't abide the law I will agree. Yet that is besides the point that the politician and bureaucrat failed to defend me during the crime. Though they did insure that I'd be defenseless during the crime.
Bottom line: politicians and bureaucrats know full well that they cannot be there to defend a victim during a violent crime. When they vote for gun control laws they know full well that they will be leaving victims defenseless.
They are parasites more destructive than the criminals they proclaim to be protecting their constituents from.
lol... yeah well it'll sure surprise a lot of muggers
Sooo... I think you are saying that if I drive into the city of Charlotte, NC, and some coke-head wants my Beemer, and breaks the windo, that I cannot put a few 9mm rounds through his head?
Just make sure your life IS in danger and the wounds aren't in the back of the head lol
Read my tagline and reflect on the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Actually, he committed a crime by doing an anchor shot on one of his attackers.
"No credible evidence" just means they choose not to believe what evidence their is.
Actually, he committed a crime by doing an anchor shot on one of his attackers.
He committed a crime in New York City just by having the gun. If I'd been on that jury he would have at least gotten a hung jury
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