Posted on 03/29/2018 11:21:55 PM PDT by rogerantone1
Do more gun control laws mean fewer firearm deaths? Gun control advocates typically provide graphs looking across states that show more gun control laws related to fewer firearm deaths, but there are real problems with this approach. A Boston University School of Public Health project is one of the latest to make the rounds in various news outlets.
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Do the cities with strict gun control? They do not, they have the highest rates.
I don’t believe in any gun control laws. None. The Amendment says ‘’The right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed’’.
The Politicos in Chicago complain that the Guns used in Violent Crime there come from outside the City.
They never ask themselves why the areas outside the City don’t have the same Violent Crime Rates as Chicago does.
You and everyone reading your comment my FRiend.
Down here in the GUNSHINE state, with all the a**holes on the road there’s a bigger danger of getting in a car wreck, particularly with a drunk or druggie, or some bimbo too preoccupied with texting her BFF about the crazy sex she had the night before than facing the business end of a gun, let alone being shot. When we took the firearms safety courses, and since we’ve been going to the range I realized if driving safety was taken half as seriously as gun safety our insurance premiums would be like chump change.
> don’t believe in any gun control laws. None. The Amendment says ‘’The right of the people to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed’’.
That’s right. Even if all the studies and statistics didn’t align with that, the 2nd amendment is still a corollary of the natural ‘Right to Life’. The right to life embodies the right to protect one’s life.
One could write a book similar to David Kopel’s 1992 one that compared a few countries and their firearms laws (and related histories) with the United States about the varying regions of the U.S. and their firearms laws and related histories and cultures pertaining to firearms ownership.
It would be interesting to contrast and compare Northern New England (Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire) the Atlantic states (New York, Mass, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland, Delaware, etc), Texas (a state that likely deserves a chapter of its own), the Old South (FL, GA, VA, WV, TN, LA, AL, MO, etc), the Old West (PA, OH, MI, IN, IL. MN, IA, and KY), Pacific (CA, WA, OR, HI, and AK), and New West (OK, AZ, NV, NB, ID, WY, ND, SC, and MT).
No statistics can never ever justify anti-gun laws given the millions and millions of deaths caused by anti-gun laws just during the 20th century. They arrive to the opposite conclusion only by denying massive and irrefutable facts using the worst tactics of history revisionism and blatant lies.
So those “studies and statistics” are window dressing typical of post-modernist pseudo-scientific taxpayers funded academia. They have zero value and zero common sense. Their aim is not to bring knowledge or insight but to brainwash suckers into supporting the anti-gun propaganda.
Agreed, I recall firearms prohibitionists in years past arguing how New York City and even Washington, DC (with 1977 handgun ban) were apparently safer than living with the violent yahoos and rednecks in the South or West.
Where is NC? Hmmmm
Pardon me, yes and I would include both Carolinas in the Old South section (and Washington DC in the Atlantic).
Thanks, and I thought it probably belonged with SC, but did not want to assume...lol
Too much data and statistics for me. Would like to see John Lott reply, especially since the article quotes from his book.
> Down here in the GUNSHINE state, with all the a**holes on the road there’s a bigger danger of getting in a car wreck, particularly with a drunk or druggie,...
It happens anywhere; not just in the Sunshine state.
Three weeks ago my wife was in an accident. It was on a long straight section of road. The other driver, coming from the other direction, turned directly in front of her intending to pull into a parking lot.
When the cops got, there they noticed the other driver had very dilated eyes and upon further inspection the found drugs and drug paraphernalia on the front seat of the car. She was charged with DUI and possession of the drugs and needles. They arrested her and took her away in nylon zip ties. It gets better, she was driving a rental car.
We got my wife’s car back from the collision shop yesterday. The car rental company was self insured and even had their own collision shop. They paid for everything and provided a rental vehicle while my wife’s car was being repaired.
You are lucky it wasn’t an illegal that caused the accident. Then it would all be on you since they don’t need no stinkin insurance.
The homicide rate may be rising in some U.S. cities, but slayings are still a localized phenomenon, with most U.S. counties not seeing a single homicide in 2014.
The vast majority of homicides occurred in just 5 percent of counties, and even there the murders were localized, with some neighborhoods untouched by the violence, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Crime Prevention Research Center.
“I just think most people have a real misunderstanding about how heavily concentrated murders are,” said John R. Lott Jr., the author of the study. “You have over half the murders in the United States taking place in 2 percent of the counties.”
How is this relevant when criminals don’t obey laws? The only thing driving crime rates is the number of available criminals a locale has.
Colonial America had gun laws. Americans were actually required to HAVE guns back then!
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