Guns Save Lives !!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed !!
An Armed Citizen, Is A Safe Citizen !!
No Guns, No Rights !!
Molon Labe !!
Posted on 04/30/2002 8:14:59 AM PDT by white trash redneck
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:33:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It is rare for a prestigious institution to nakedly compromise its research integrity to promote a political agenda. Yet this is what the Harvard School of Public Health did April 17 when it issued an anti-gun press release trumpeting its recent study on the murder of women.
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What an opportunity to make liberals look like such fools.
Guns Save Lives !!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed !!
An Armed Citizen, Is A Safe Citizen !!
No Guns, No Rights !!
Molon Labe !!
How overall homicide rates compare for whites, hispanics, and blacks (both sexes)
Overall homicide rate per 100,000 for whites, 1999: 3.84.
Homicide rate for persons of Hispanic origin: 9.14.
Homicide rate for blacks: 21.94.
How homicide rates compare for white, hispanic, and black women
Homicide rate for women: 2.94.
Homicide rate for white women: 2.16.
Homicide rate for women of Hispanic origin: 2.99.
Homicide rate for black women: 7.83.
Bonus info on gun ownership and victimization of women (from our good buddies at Violence Policy Center):
27% of whites own a gun.
11% of hispanics own a gun.
16% of blacks own a gun.
Only about 8% of women own a gun.
I was unable to find figures for black women vs. white women, but if one assumes (based on the above info) that white people are 70% more likely to own a gun than black people... a bit of algebra leads me to make an educated guess that, probably:
Around 8.5% of white women own guns.
Only around 5% of black women own guns.
96% of women murdered are murdered by a male.
42% of female murder victims are black women.
Violence Policy Center's response to this victimization of women by armed, violent, physically stronger men:
Demand that all legal handguns in the United States be banned and confiscated.
How overall homicide rates compare for whites, hispanics, and blacks (both sexes)
Overall homicide rate per 100,000 for whites, 1999: 3.84.
Homicide rate for persons of Hispanic origin: 9.14.
Homicide rate for blacks: 21.94.
How homicide rates compare for white, hispanic, and black women
Homicide rate for women: 2.94.
Homicide rate for white women: 2.16.
Homicide rate for women of Hispanic origin: 2.99.
Homicide rate for black women: 7.83.
Bonus info on gun ownership and victimization of women (from our good buddies at Violence Policy Center):
27% of whites own a gun.
11% of hispanics own a gun.
16% of blacks own a gun.
Only about 8% of women own a gun.
I was unable to find figures for black women vs. white women, but if one assumes (based on the above info) that white people are 70% more likely to own a gun than black people... a bit of algebra leads me to make an educated guess that, probably:
Around 8.5% of white women own guns.
Only around 5% of black women own guns.
96% of women murdered are murdered by a male.
42% of female murder victims are black women.
Of the minority of women who own a firearm, the reason for ownership given by 85%: self-defense.
Violence Policy Center's response to this victimization of women by armed, violent, physically stronger men:
Demand that all legal handguns in the United States be banned and confiscated.
Of the minority of women who own a firearm, the reason for ownership given by 85%: self-defense.
I tried to abort the punch of the posting button (and thought I had).
Go up to hippy types and ask them do they really want only the military and police to be the only armed force in the country?
I went door to door for about six months collecting signatures to oppose the Oak Park, Illinois gun ban. I learned how to play to an audience and how to push people's buttons. And I don't mean their doorbell. Well, that too.
...& you'd think the HAAAvAAAd brainiacs would know that, too.
I like to have my ducks in a row when I do battle with the unconstitutional socialist's and hate to be asked and not know.........
Stay Safe !
What irks me is the ONE place I need to carry is in the 'hood where I teach ... and I am not allowed to by law. My rights are being subverted by the nannie state!
All homicide rate data is from the online database for the Centers for Disease Control. All other data is pretty much from the Violence Policy Center web site, except the "around 8%" of women owning a firearm. Their site says 6.6%; some other stat I found (sorry, didn't track it too closely, you'll just have to do a Google search) said 9% -- I simply averaged the two and rounded to 8%.
The one remaining thing is my estimate of percentages of white and black women who own guns (about 8.5% & 5%). I derived this algebraicly from the following assumptions and round figures: I assumed 69% more white women own guns than black women, since that was true for all whites (both men and women). That's an assumption, but was the best info i had. Then I said, let's say 85% of women are white and 15% are black (I left out hispanics but since their homicide rate is similar to that of white women, I don't think it should matter). Then I calculated, on the basis that 8% of all women in America = the # of white women with guns + the # of black women with guns. The # of each is = % of each times the # of white/black women in America.
Here's another way of saying that:
Violence Policy Center's response to this victimization of women by armed, violent, physically stronger men:
Demand that 7 million American women have their legally owned handguns, purchased for the express purpose of self-defense, forcibly confiscated and taken away from them -- permanently.
Demand that another 1 million American women have legally owned handguns taken away from them which were purchased for other reasons but which could quite readily be used for self-defense.
Demand that another 100 million women be barred, for the rest of their lives, from ever owning a handgun they could possibly use to actively defend their lives and persons.
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
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