On 7/27/2017 5:40 PM, !Jones wrote:
> x-no-idiots: yes
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:32:36 -0400, in talk.politics.guns benj
> <
be...@nobody.net> wrote:
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>> Lessee. If guns for good guys are so absolutely useless...
>
> Well, let's look at history: have you reduced our crime rate any?
Whose crime rate?
Chicago or Detroit's?
> (Actually, you've managed to increase it.)
You're saying he's black?
> Have you stopped any
> crimes?
Have you?
> If so, how many?
Are you still felching spaniels>
> Why can't we see it in our national
> statistics?
We do:
http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2014/08/11/firearm-ownership-reduces-crime/
During the King riots, neighbors asked if I was going to leave. Having
friends in Orange County, I easily could have escaped the riot area and
stayed with them.
It is important to understand that telephones didn’t work in South
Central during the first day of the riots and worked intermittently for
several more days. During these times, calling 911 was not an option.
Neighbors that previously thought it strange for me to have firearms
quickly developed an appreciation for having someone around with several.
Fortunately it was not necessary to use my firearms, but I did carry a
concealed handgun out into the street one night, when several of us
saved a black man’s life. He was being attacked and beaten with a club
by five men.
When the police finally arrived, no charges were filed against the
attackers. They were drunk Hispanics attacking a black man. From the
police point of view, why bother?
For several decades, criminology researchers have found that gun control
does not increase public safety. Researchers such as Gary Kleck, John
Lott, and others have found high rates of violent crime are associated
with cities with highly restrictive gun control laws. Examples include
Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles.
When concealed carry permits laws are enacted, violent crime declines.
But who needs research findings? Anyone paying attention to the news
should be able to see that during recent years, as concealed carry
permits have become more easily available and firearms ownership has
increased, violent crime rates have declined.
http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/cnsnewscom-staff/more-guns-less-gun-violence-between-1993-and-2013
The chart below was inspired by a similar one featured by Max
Ehrenfreund in his recent Wonkblog post titled “We’ve had a massive
decline in gun violence in the United States. Here’s why.” In contrast
to the widely embraced narrative, perpetuated by liberal politicians and
the media, that gun violence in America is getting worse all the time,
the data reveal that the exact opposite is true.
According to data retrieved from the Centers for Disease Control, there
were 7 firearm-related homicides for every 100,000 Americans in 1993
(see light blue line in chart). By 2013 (most recent year available),
the gun homicide rate had fallen by nearly 50 percent to only 3.6
homicides per 100,000 population.
Ehrenfreund says that “Even as a certain type of mass shooting is
apparently becoming more frequent, America has become a much less
violent place. Much of the decline in violence is still unexplained, but
researchers have identified several reasons for the shift.” He then
points to factors explaining the decline in violent crime in general and
gun homicides in particular, including more police officers on the beat
making greater use of computers, a decline in alcohol consumption, less
lead exposure, and an improving economy.
But there’s another possible reason for the decline in gun violence
overlooked by Ehrenfreund – the significant increase in the number of
guns in America, illustrated above by the dark blue line in the chart.
Based on data from a 2012 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report
(and additional data from another Wonkblog article “There are now more
guns than people in the United States”), the number of privately owned
firearms in U.S. increased from about 185 million in 1993 to 357 million
in 2013.
Adjusted for the U.S. population, the number of guns per American
increased from 0.93 per person in 1993 to 1.45 in 2013, which is a 56
percent increase in the number of guns per person that occurred during
the same period when gun violence decreased by 49 percent (see new chart
below). Of course, that significant correlation doesn’t necessarily
imply causation, but it’s logical to believe that those two trends are
related. After all, armed citizens frequently prevent crimes from
happening, including gun-related homicides, see hundreds of examples
here of law-abiding gun owners defending themselves and their families
and homes.
In a December 2013 Breitbart article, “Congressional Study: Murder Rate
Plummets as Gun Ownership Soars,” Awr Hawkins referred to the CRS report
referenced above and connected the two trends:
"So after all the pro-gun control grandstanding and the relentless focus
on how the so-called easy availability of guns drives up crime, the CRS
report shows that more guns–especially more concealable guns–has
actually correlated with less crime."
Bottom Line: Even if you’re not convinced that increased gun ownership
reduces violent crime and gun homicides, you should be totally convinced
of this indisputable fact: Gun violence has been decreasing
significantly over time, not increasing as you’ll frequently hear from
anti-gun politicians and progressives. The gun-related homicide rate of
3.6 deaths per 100,000 population in each of the years 2010, 2011 and
2013 makes those recent years the safest in at least 20 years, and
possibly the safest in modern U.S. history, since “older data [before
1993] suggest that gun violence might have been even more widespread
previously,” according to Ehrenfreund.
> I'd say that you're just pretty useless...
I'd say you need long dirt nap, you gun-grabbing traitor!
> unless killing 50-some odd
> faggots is "useful".
>
> Jones
Citation?