Hey guardian azzhats, thanks for making it abundantly clear that you are part of the predator class. See my tag...
So the opposite result is better?
Murders and lots of violent crime linked to strong gun laws?
It took 3 geniuses to write this?
You say it like it’s a bad thing.
Hey Guardian...go screw. One of your headlines about the gun free England just two months ago.
“Murder rate rose 5% last year”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/19/murder-rate-rose-5-percent
How many victims saved their lives in the US being armed over victims being killed being unarmed in the UK, you Commie Pinko losers?
TRANSLATION: Eric Holder’s people consider violent crime to be a legitimate career path, and armed victims to be an OSHA violation.
The Guardian is happy with the skyrocketing crime rate in England. They want to share with us.
“However, in states with both SYG laws and the weakest gun controls... we found ...an increase in justifiable homicides.”
Great news! It works!
I fail to see any problem.....
This editorial of theirs must have been terribly hard to write, because in just about any direction they could argue, self-defense is always reasonable.
It would be interesting to write an article about a future Britain where guns were legal, criminals had to serve long and harsh prison sentences, and heinous criminals would be executed. Such an article would be positive and optimistic, and show how the overall character of the British would improve.
Such an article would imagine ordinary people protecting and defending the elderly the young and the weak from violence by criminals, how the streets were again safe, and how disorderly and vicious people were put on the defensive out of fear of the good citizenry.
So if justifiable homicides go up but violent crime goes down, doesn’t that mean that less good guys are dying?
Uh Guardian, a dead thug is a good thing.
It is pretty obvious to anyone with at least two functioning brain cells (which automatically disqualifies libtards) that Mr. Zimmerman could not retreat while the larger Mr. Martin was on top of him smashing his head into concrete repeatedly.
He was not “standing his ground”, he was pinned to it.
The guardian can kiss my red-white-and-blue ass. Fight for what you believe in, stand your ground, and live by the rules set forth by our founding fathers. That is the American way!
Justifiable. Hmm, is it just me, but doesn’t that word imply that the killing was, uh, justified?
And that’s why it’s not called “justifiable murder”?
Note, the emphasis above is mine. So, the reverse is true then? In states with "strong" gun control laws and/or no stand-your-ground provision there are fewer justifiable homicides? Are the people there just nicer? Or are people deserving of getting killed being allowed to live and harm/threaten/kill others?
I'm sorry Guardian, you just made our (us pro 2nd Amendment types) case. Justifiable homicides are, well justified by definition. As if there were any doubt:
By contrast, violent crime overall has been falling.
Let me guess, they didn't investigate any statistical linkage there, any causal relationship. Or if they did, they didn't like the results and therefore aren't reporting on it. Bad people being justifiably killed, and violent crimes are decreasing. Hmmm, that's a tough one... Ok, you got me. I fail to see a problem here, other than the potential for a rise in the demand-for, and cost-of ammunition.
justifiable homicides == self defense
I’d rather have more dead bad guys then more dead victims
then again, I’m a stupid conservative type that believes in smaller govt and tougher crime laws (whose sentences are actually carried out completely)
I wonder if they bothered to check to see that gun crime in the UK is higher than the per capita gun crime in the US. And in a country with one of the highest restrictive gun laws. No more knives with sharp points either, only rounded ones are now for sale. Then too, a country where if you hurt or injure someone breaking into your house you’re the one who is going to be arrested.
People exercising self-defense is not a bad thing. Only for the criminals.
Put the shootings in context, how many were deemed to be non-justified? Come on liberal media!
It’s not like permit holders go hunting for trouble. Trouble finds them, like bashing in their doors, trying to rob them, carjack them. Freaking idiots.
All of them wishing they had a gun when their daughter is raped in front of them and the thugs decide to murder the lot of them.
[Rise in justifiable homicides linked to weak gun control laws
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I’m not seeing the problem.
The more thugs we shoot the less thugs there will be. I don’t see a problem!