Posted on 01/07/2015 9:30:40 AM PST by Kaslin
Any police cruiser has a data entry device. Enter the license plate number and the registered owner’s driver’s license info will come up. For many states, that will also include info on a CCL. They know who you are.
But how could this happen unless Florida was allowing its CCw permit information to be shared with other states? This indicates that CCW information is being compiled into some sort of National gun registry database.
Or is it the Socialist Democratic Peoples Republic of Maryland? I've been here so long I can't remember which is the correct name?
the MDTA officer tailed his vehicle for 10 minutes before eventually signaling for him to pull over.
http://www.theacru.org/harvard_study_gun_control_is_counterproductive/
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Harvard Study: Gun Control Is Counterproductive
POSTED BY ACRU
TUESDAY, MAY 8TH, 2007
I’ve just learned that Washington, D.C.’s petition for a rehearing of the Parker case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was denied today. This is good news. Readers will recall in this case that the D.C. Circuit overturned the decades-long ban on gun ownership in the nation’s capitol on Second Amendment grounds.
However, as my colleague Peter Ferrara explained in his National Review Online article following the initial decision in March, it looks very likely that the United States Supreme Court will take the case on appeal. When it does so – beyond seriously considering the clear original intent of the Second Amendment to protect an individual’s right to armed self-defense – the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court would be wise to take into account the findings of a recent study out of Harvard.
The study, which just appeared in Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (pp. 649-694), set out to answer the question in its title: “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence.” Contrary to conventional wisdom, and the sniffs of our more sophisticated and generally anti-gun counterparts across the pond, the answer is “no.” And not just no, as in there is no correlation between gun ownership and violent crime, but an emphatic no, showing a negative correlation: as gun ownership increases, murder and suicide decreases.
The findings of two criminologists – Prof. Don Kates and Prof. Gary Mauser – in their exhaustive study of American and European gun laws and violence rates, are telling:
Nations with stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher murder rates than those that do not. The study found that the nine European nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000 population) have a combined murder rate three times higher than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000 population).
For example, Norway has the highest rate of gun ownership in Western Europe, yet possesses the lowest murder rate. In contrast, Holland’s murder rate is nearly the worst, despite having the lowest gun ownership rate in Western Europe. Sweden and Denmark are two more examples of nations with high murder rates but few guns. As the study’s authors write in the report:
If the mantra “more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death” were true, broad cross-national comparisons should show that nations with higher gun ownership per capita consistently have more death. Nations with higher gun ownership rates, however, do not have higher murder or suicide rates than those with lower gun ownership. Indeed many high gun ownership nations have much lower murder rates. (p. 661)
Finally, and as if to prove the bumper sticker correct – that “gun don’t kill people, people do” – the study also shows that Russia’s murder rate is four times higher than the U.S. and more than 20 times higher than Norway. This, in a country that practically eradicated private gun ownership over the course of decades of totalitarian rule and police state methods of suppression. Needless to say, very few Russian murders involve guns.
The important thing to keep in mind is not the rate of deaths by gun – a statistic that anti-gun advocates are quick to recite – but the overall murder rate, regardless of means. The criminologists explain:
[P]er capita murder overall is only half as frequent in the United States as in several other nations where gun murder is rarer, but murder by strangling, stabbing, or beating is much more frequent. (p. 663 – emphases in original)
It is important to note here that Profs. Kates and Mauser are not pro-gun zealots. In fact, they go out of their way to stress that their study neither proves that gun control causes higher murder rates nor that increased gun ownership necessarily leads to lower murder rates. (Though, in my view, Prof. John Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime does indeed prove the latter.) But what is clear, and what they do say, is that gun control is ineffectual at preventing murder, and apparently counterproductive.
Not only is the D.C. gun ban ill-conceived on constitutional grounds, it fails to live up to its purpose. If the astronomical murder rate in the nation’s capitol, in comparison to cities where gun ownership is permitted, didn’t already make that fact clear, this study out of Harvard should.
I understand the sentiment but America seems to be shrinking. There are few places to live that are truly free.
I was back in MD visiting family over the holidays and checked out a local gun shop. It’s never been easy in MD, but all the new hoops like the HQL are insane!
Here in NM I once bought 3 handguns in 2 stores in one afternoon, total elapsed time, about 20 minutes.
Yes, it’s true America seems to be shrinking. I hope that in six years there’ll still be a part of it left where my guns and I will be welcome.
I have refused to buy any new guns since the new laws went into effect. That and the fact that places to shoot are about about as scarce as .22 ammo.
Just another liberal craphole; I see no reason to ever go there; further, I can’t even imagine why I would ever drive through there.
I understand. However, you must prepare yourself for the time when you and they are not.
I lived in Baltimore 2001 - 2002. It was widely known then that the police targeted drivers with out of state plates. I’d submit to you the the officer targeted this guy & ran his plates for that reason alone, then zoned in on him when he found the CCW permit
I’m not anti-police. The actions of de Blasio, Holder, Obama, Sharpton et al are repugnant and destructive to a once lawful nation. However there are cops out there who don’t deserve to be cops and a system that protects those types.
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Actually, a lot of police cruisers these days have cameras that automatically read license plates and query various data systems to see if a hit of some sort pops up. DC cruisers definitely have them, two mounted externally on the rear quarter panels facing forward.
I don’t recall seeing them on MD state trooper cruisers, but I’ll pay attention for them the next time I head up 95. Which, given this article, may not be for a while.
The article (just an excerpt?) doesn’t reveal why the guy was tailed and pulled over. It only says that his wife was confused about the location of the gun. This may be, directly, a gun ownership/CCW issue, but it also raises very, very ugly questions about erosion of civil liberties.
Part of my plan is to become invisible/indistinguishable to the system.
As I read the article it says that the guy was pulled over for speeding 10 mph over. Not to diminish the topic here but had he not been speeding he could have standing to challenge the entire thing.
I have a CCW in my state and carry in my car and on my motorcycle. The gun is always in the center console while the papers for the vehicle are in the glove box. On the bike the gun is within reach but not visible and the papers are in the back. I travel all over the country like this.
When I am in a state that I know does not recognize my permit I make it an absolute point to never speed, I don’t turn right on red (cameras), I always use a turn signal, my vehicle has all the standard equipment and the window tint is as it came with. I obey every law there is. Should I get pulled over for a made up infraction my gps and dash cam record my every move and the speed I was going.
Then if they find my gun and arrest me I have standing to challenge the original infraction for which I was pulled over.
And to another point if a cop is tailing me I either exit the highway, pull into a convenience store or gas station or rest area and get out of the vehicle.
It wasn’t this article but from another source earlier this week where it came out that the guy was speeding 10 over before the cop pulled him over.
Refer to The Wallet Rule.
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