OMG ILY!
Few facts taken from random articles and studies, I wrote a paper on this topic last semester. I’m against gun prohibition.
The National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank, reported the following statistics:
* New Jersey adopted what sponsors described as "the most stringent gun law" in the nation in 1966; two years later, the murder rate was up 46% and the reported robbery rate had nearly doubled.
* In 1968, Hawaii imposed a series of increasingly harsh measures, and its murder rate tripled from a low of 2.4 per 100,000 in 1968 to 7.2 by 1977.
* In 1976, Washington, D.C., enacted one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Since then, the city's murder rate has risen 134% while the national murder rate has dropped 2%.
In addition:
* Over 50% of American households own guns, despite government statistics showing the number is approximately 35%, because guns not listed on any government roll were not counted during the gathering of data.[105]
* Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb of 75,000 residents, became the largest town to ban handgun ownership in September 1982 but experienced no decline in violent crime.
* Among the 15 states with the highest homicide rates, 10 have restrictive or very restrictive gun laws.
* Twenty percent of U.S. homicides occur in four cities with just 6% of the population—New York, Chicago, Detroit and Washington, D.C.—and each has (or, in the case of Detroit, had until 2001) a virtual prohibition on private handguns.
* UK banned private ownership of most handguns in 1997, previously held by an estimated 57,000 people—0.1% of the population.[107] Since 1998, the number of people injured by firearms in England and Wales has more than doubled.[108] In 2005-06, of 5,001 such injuries, 3,474 (69%) were defined as "slight," and a further 965 (19%) involved the "firearm" being used as a blunt instrument. Twenty-four percent of injuries were caused with air guns, and 32% with "imitation firearms" (including soft air guns).[109] Since 1998, the number of fatal shootings has varied between 49 and 97, and was 50 in 2005.
* Australia forced the surrender of nearly 650,000 personal firearms in 1997. A study published in 2007 shows a 47% decrease of firearms-related deaths.
* Violent crime accelerated in Jamaica after handguns were banned.
Ugh. I fucking hate these debates. I cant stand the fact that there are special interest groups that actually believe that a ban on guns will abolish gun related crimes. It makes me rofl.
As someone stated earlier. Criminals can and will get firearms, is it not in the best interest of the regular joe to be able to obtain a firearm without a major hasle? I think it is.
I do think that a psych evaluation, and a training course should be mandatory. I dont agree with assault rifle bans what so ever either. If the regular citizen is not allowed to have it, than why should the police? Lets face it. Why would the police than need fully auto weapons if the regular citizens do not have any?
Ugh. im too tired to continue this rant and cant seem to organize my thought in a coherent manner so i will continue this tomorrow or something.
Paranoid with a gat
Think you know where it’s at
But you’re lookin’ like a sissie
Guns are for pussies
ieatpaint…those facts are all nice (and I do agree with your cause, honest!) but thats all circumstantial evidence…anecdotal for some.
But the point is that anti gun activists think banning guns will reduce crime, and those “anecdotes” prove that crime doesn’t decrease with an increase in gun laws.