Posted on 05/07/2013 2:40:00 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
Gun violence has dropped dramatically nationwide over the past two decades, but nearly three-quarters of all homicides are still committed with a firearm, the Justice Department said...
The report, by the department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, painted an encouraging picture of long-term trends at a time of divisive political debate over guns and legislation to regulate them. Firearms-related homicides declined 39 percent between 1993 and 2011, the report said, while nonfatal firearms crimes fell 69 percent during that period.
The biggest setback for the White House was the defeat of a compromise measure to expand background checks for firearms purchases. Gun-control proponents have since mobilized to revive the push for stricter gun laws, but gun rights groups might seize on one finding in Tuesday’s Justice Department report to argue against enhanced background checks.
Less than 1 percent of state prison inmates who possessed a gun when they committed their offense obtained the firearm at a gun show, the report said.
About 40 percent of state prison inmates obtained their firearms from illegal sources such as theft or through a drug deal, the report said, while 37 percent got their guns from a family member or friend. Those findings are based on data from 2004.
Overall, the Justice Department report said, firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011, while nonfatal firearm crimes declined from 1.5 million in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011. The drop extended to schools: Homicides at schools declined from an average of 29 per year in the 1990s to an average of 20 per year in the 2000s.
Although the rate of firearms homicides for African Americans declined by 51 percent over the past two decades, that rate was still 14.6 per 100,000 people in 2010 — compared to 1.9 for whites.
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Why don’t they have a “gun-deaths per 100,000” stat. for the cities vs rural areas, and suburbs?
Less than 1 percent of state prison inmates who possessed a gun when they committed their offense obtained the firearm at a gun show, the report said.
The rate of firearms homicides for African Americans is 14.6 per 100,000 people in 2010 — compared to 1.9 for whites.
Heck, I’m an Engineer, but one doesn’t need to know much about mathematics to see the humor behind these facts and the gun debate going on in Washington.
Seizethecarp~(from the article):” Less than 1 percent of state prison inmates who possessed a gun when they committed their offense obtained the firearm at a gun show, the report said.
About 40 percent of state prison inmates obtained their firearms from illegal sources such as theft or through a drug deal, the report said, while 37 percent got their guns from a family member or friend. “
Don’t let a little factoid get in the way of a progressive agenda
The Government is going to legislate new laws whereby the ratio is 77 to 1 ?
What utter folly !!
The author went off-topic with his piece, though. The propaganda and legislation attempts have been mostly about semi-automatic rifles and class war efforts to outlaw possession by the private sector rabble.
More Murdered with Hands and Feet than “Assault Rifles”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2973504/posts
FBI Crime Stats: You are more likely to be killed by hands and feet than by a shotgun or rifle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2969817/posts
Actually most killings involve alcohol and a motor vehicle.
LLS
That's what I was finding. The DOT lists 13,365 dui vehicular homicides in 2010 alone. Makes me wonder how many other weapons they left out. How about say, botched abortion?
Most cancer deaths still involve cancer!
Beck was talking about this the other day.
3,696 killed in the US by lightning VS 513 in mass shootings in the same time period.
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