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To: knighthawk
I inform you of this because I just read a report from the Chief of Police in Washington DC has declared a “crime emergency” in that city. This was in response to a sharp increase in crimes citywide in recent weeks. They had fourteen homicides in the first 12 days of July. A 16% increase in robberies and a 14% rise in serious assaults over the past 30 days.

On the other hand, NYC has perhaps the toughest gun laws in the Country and it has by far the lowest violent crime rate of any large city in the Country and one of the lowest violent crime rates of all city in the Country, including those gun-toting red-state icons like Phoenix, Jacksonville, Denver, and Dallas-Fort Worth. The same can be said about Boston and several other large anti-second amendment cities. On the other hand, there are several anti-second amendment cities that have extemely high violent crime rates, like Detroit, Baltimore, and of course, Washington D.C. The honest question is whether anti-gun cities like New York and Boston have low violent crime rates because of their strict gun laws or in spite of them; whether anti-gun cities like Detroit and Baltimore have high violent crime rates because of their strict gun laws or in spite of them; and whether gun loving cities like Phoenix, Jacksonville, and DFW have high violent crime rates because of their gun laws or in spite of them. IMHO, the statistics offer something for everyone, which makes them pretty much worthless, and that crime rates have a lot more to do with the types of people who inhabit a city than the gun laws.

9 posted on 07/20/2006 4:01:26 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos
IMHO, the statistics offer something for everyone, which makes them pretty much worthless, and that crime rates have a lot more to do with the types of people who inhabit a city than the gun laws.

Let's see, Atlanta, Detroit, NY City, WA D.C., Chicago, Philly, etc., the inter-city is primarily black. I love it when they speak of whites killing blacks, when it is black on black crime that kills more and damages blacks more. LA's gangs, D.C. and Philly's gangs. Latino gangs. Seattle has tons of Asian gangs. Your right. It is who is there.

10 posted on 07/20/2006 4:12:37 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (July 6th - FREEDOM DAY!! We made it out of WA state to Alabama!!!)
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To: Labyrinthos

alright.. can someone show me an example of any "anti-gun" laws in detroit? i keep hearing people here say it, but i've never heard anything about them having any laws that are different from anywhere else in MI.


22 posted on 07/20/2006 5:48:54 AM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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