Posted on 03/07/2013 6:14:11 AM PST by KeyLargo
More gun laws = fewer deaths, 50-state study says
By By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer 14 hours ago
CHICAGO (AP) States with the most gun control laws have the fewest gun-related deaths, according to a study that suggests sheer quantity of measures might make a difference.
But the research leaves many questions unanswered and won't settle the debate over how policymakers should respond to recent high-profile acts of gun violence.
In the dozen or so states with the most gun control-related laws, far fewer people were shot to death or killed themselves with guns than in the states with the fewest laws, the study found. Overall, states with the most laws had a 42 percent lower gun death rate than states with the least number of laws.
The results are based on an analysis of 2007-2010 gun-related homicides and suicides from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The researchers also used data on gun control measures in all 50 states compiled by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a well-known gun control advocacy group. They compared states by dividing them into four equal-sized groups according to the number of gun laws.
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Did they actually use, I don’t think “massaged” is a good word for it, perhaps “kneaded”, numbers, or just fall back on the good old reliable, “sucked them out of our thumbs”?
This is, quite simply, just plain false and has been shown to be so in reliable studies.
Phoenix has a much lower crime rate because, while both states have reasonable firearms ownership and carry laws, the State of Arizona has some of the strongest firearms preemption laws in the country and citizens of Phoenix are for the most part free to defend themselves Citizens of Philadelphia are, by force of law, soft targets.
This despite the fact that the Federal Government has in the past armed the drug gangs here.
>> I thought everybody knew that VT was one of the least restrictive states <<
On the contrary, I’d say the fact is known by very few people outside of VT and maybe NH. When I mention it to either a gun-control fan or an NRA member, I almost always get a reaction of surprise!
They want to make it a lot harder for you to kill yourself so that you can spend more time on Earth as Obumma’s milking cow.
Moo!
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Semi-Auto and Private Sales Bans
Posted on March 15, 2013
On March 12 and 14, the Senate Judiciary committee held two working sessions to deal with gun-related bills.
The result of those hearings was the passage of Sen. Charles Schumers (D-N.Y.) S. 374, the “Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013”—which would criminalize virtually all private firearm sales, even temporary transfers—and Sen. Dianne Feinsteins (D-Calif.) S. 150, the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2013.”
Both of these bills pose a direct threat to our Second Amendment rights and both were passed on party-line votes, with committee Democrats supporting the bills and all Republicans voting no.
If it’s California then let the idiots enjoy getting raped and killed by illegals. It will be a state pastime like it is in Europe.
If red states comply..well...they deserve the same. Any innocents killed in the decades to come will get to watch the fools roast in Hell for what they have done.
They don’t want you killing yourself unless the state determines that it doesn’t need your carcass.
Colorado governor to sign gun controls into law
Published March 19, 2013
| Associated Press
DENVER Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will sign legislation Wednesday that sets limits on ammunition magazines and expands background checks for firearms, marking a Democratic victory in a state where gun ownership is a treasured right and Second Amendment debate has played out in the wake of two mass shootings.
The measures proposed are some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, and their passage comes after weeks of tense legislative battles. Republicans and gun rights supporters put up a major fight against the measures in this politically moderate state, while Democrats made them the centerpieces of a package of legislative proposals drafted in reaction to shooting rampages at a suburban Denver movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school last year.
67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate of 9.7, more than twice the national average. Among teenagers the firearm murder rate is 14.6 or almost three times the national average. Those numbers are from six years ago. They have grown worse since.
Those are the crowded cities of Obamerica. The places with the most restrictive gun control laws and the highest crime rates. These are the places where the family is broken, money comes from the government and immigrants crowd in from some of the most violent parts of the world bringing with them their own organized crime. These are also the places that have run by Democrats and their political machines for almost as long as they have been broken.
Obama won every major city in the election, except for Jacksonville and Salt Lake City. And the higher the death rate, the bigger his victory. He won New Orleans by 80 to 17 where the murder rate is ten times higher than the national average. He won Detroit, where the murder rate of 53 per 100,000 people is the second highest in the country and twice as high as any country in the world, including the Congo and South Africa. He won it 73 to 26. And then he celebrated his victory in Chicago where the murder rate is three times the statewide average.
These places aren’t America. They’re Obamerica.
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