Posted on 08/27/2013 1:51:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrat Statists and professional propagandists hardest hit: it's Hahvahd, after all.
Youre going to want to read all of this (PDF).
Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy is the stuff of gun grabbers nightmares. Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser have compiled a heavily foot-noted academic report that is nonetheless very compelling and relatively easy to digest...
The Harvard study attempts to answer the question of whether or not banning firearms would reduce murders and suicides. Researchers looked at crime data from several European countries and found that countries with HIGHER gun ownership often had LOWER murder rates.
Russia, for example, enforces very strict gun control on its people, but its murder rate remains quite high. In fact, the murder rate in Russia is four times higher tahn in the gun-ridden United States, cites the study. Homicide results suggest that where guns are scarce other weapons are substituted in killings. In other words, the elimination of guns does not eliminate murder, and in the case of gun-controlled Russia, murder rates are quite high.
The study revealed several European countries with significant gun ownership, like Norway, Finland, Germany and France had remarkably low murder rates. Contrast that with Luxembourg, where handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal, had a murder rate nine times higher than Germany in 2002.
The study found no evidence to suggest that the availability of guns contributes to higher murder rates anywhere in the world. Of course, it may be speculated that murder rates around the world would be higher if guns were more available. But there is simply no evidence to support this.
The authors also took a look at the effect of gun control laws in various U.S. states, gun ownership in rural and urban areas, and across racial lines. The long and short of it is that a small number of extremely active criminals with lengthy criminal records are responsible for the overwhelming super-majority of all gun crimes, and these criminals are psychopaths that ignore all laws.
The study also cited a previous report that was unable to find a single gun control law implemented in the United States that is proven to have reduced violent crime.
Perhaps someone could forward the study to Chicago Mayor Rahm "Tiny Dancer" Emanuel, not that facts ever influenced a Democrat's policy position.
The long and short of it is that a small number of extremely active criminals with lengthy criminal records are responsible for the overwhelming super-majority of all gun crimes, and these criminals are psychopaths that ignore all laws.
[sincerity, average] So hard to believe! [/sincerity]
bkmk
WOW! I just saw this on nbc/abc/cbs/cnn/hln/algorezeera/npr/c-span and on the front page of usa today. Oh, no I didn’t. Silly wabbit. MSM are for anti-2nd libs.
Yet another story from the annals of ‘News that will Never Appear in the Mainstream Press.’
Actually that or something similar would make a great News Service name, and they could specifically target news ignored by MSM.
Never happen, and no one would look in on such a site, anyway.
It couldn’t possibly be more clear that the vast majority of Americans are too busy watching TV, drinking, and shagging the neighbor’s wife (or son), to care about the rising tyranny in Obama’s America.
Wrong conclusion. Gun control doesn't make guns scarce and there was no evidence that other weapons were substituted.
Proper conclusion. Criminals can always get guns whether they are banned or not.
So why isn’t this article found at the JLPP web site?
What volume and issue?
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