Fewer guns, more crime
Christopher Cook |
December 18 2012
Statistician John Lott may be best known for his book “More Guns, Less Crime.” In it, he provides the results and conclusions of a magisterial study on crime rates and correlation to gun laws. The bottom line: The more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, the less crime. The data are inescapable.
The converse is also true: when you disarm law abiding citizens, the criminals know that they have a much freer hand in committing crime. Whether they do it with illegal guns, knives, or other weapons, they know they’re far less likely to be stopped. Innocent people are harmed by gun laws; criminals are advantaged by them.
The citizens of Australia found this out a few years ago, much to their horror and suffering.
Screw that study. Gonna hammer NRA, GOA. Ban assault weapons, stiffen penalties for illegal conversion to automatic and ban high capacity clips. Then will find out about this "study."
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LikeMartynCollins For every crime committed with a gun by a criminal, ten crimes are prevented or mitigated with a gun in the hands of a law-abiding citizen. Everywhere where gun laws are more strict, crime and victimization of innocent people goes up, not down.
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LikeThat is why almost all gun control laws are slowly being abolished by the Supreme Court
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LikeNeil Patt The Constitution is clear. Even clearer is the inherent human right to self defense, which preexists government.
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