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Posted on 12/14/2006 7:17:50 AM PST by holymoly
Gun Prohibitionists Admit Tough Laws Did Not Affect Murder Rates
The International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting (WiSH) has welcomed new research showing that Australia’s 1996 gun laws did not have an impact on the pre-existing downwards trend in firearm homicides.
WiSH Chairwoman Samara McPhedran said “This study adds to the ever-increasing body of evidence that the tough laws, bans, and buybacks did not affect the ongoing decline in rates of murder using a firearm.”
The results support peer-reviewed research co-authored by Ms McPhedran and published earlier this year by the prestigious British Journal of Criminology.
“Like our work, this research shows that the reforms may have affected firearm suicide rates, which account for around 80 per cent of firearm-related deaths. However, suicides using other methods also started to drop in the late 1990’s, which means we must be cautious about drawing conclusions. It is highly likely that better funding for suicide prevention contributed to overall declines.”
“Anti-gun lobbyists have finally acknowledged that the facts demonstrate the laws’lack of effect. This forces us to recall that the half billion dollars spent on bans and buybacks came at the expense of mental healthcare, early intervention strategies, social services, and community policing,” said Ms McPhedran.
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References:
British Journal of Criminology:
http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/azl084v1
AIC:
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi151.html
ABC Law Report:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2006/1776336.htm
people intent on causing general mayhem will NOT attack someone if there is the slightest chance THEY'LL be shot back at..all they want is a nice easy mark THEY can kill with no threat to their own person..
Yep- tough laws like 3 square meals a day, the right to launch a thousand coutner lawsuits against the state, cable tv, email, education, job training, on and on it goes- yuppers- it's a tough life in prison- http://sacredscoop.com
Meanwhile, the violent crime rate in general went through the roof after gun restrictions, right? IIANM, the UK rate is now higher than the US rate!
The citizens should petition the government to get their guns back - at no increased charge to te taxpayer. Cut back some worthless program, like climate research.
Jeez, folks. Doesn't anybody follow the rules anymore?
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Illegal aliens murder
12 Americans daily
Death toll in 2006 far overshadows total
U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, Afghanistan
By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – While the military "quagmire" in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since those military campaigns began.
Though no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes committed by illegal aliens, a number of groups have produced estimates based on data collected from prisons, news reports and independent research.
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.
Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported at 2,863. Total U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan during the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289, according to the Department of Defense.
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But the carnage wrought by illegal alien murderers represents only a fraction of the pool of blood spilled by American citizens as a result of an open border and un-enforced immigration laws.
While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.
While no one – in or out of government – tracks all U.S. accidents caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens.
A report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Study found 20 percent of fatal accidents involve at least one driver who lacks a valid license. In California, another study showed that those who have never held a valid license are about five times more likely to be involved in a fatal road accident than licensed drivers.
Statistically, that makes them an even greater danger on the road than drivers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked – and nearly as dangerous as drunk drivers.
King also reports eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day – a total of 2,920 annually.
Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.
As the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. increases, so does the number of American victims.
According to Edwin Rubenstien, president of ESR Research Economic Consultants, in Indianapolis in 1980, federal and state correctional facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. But at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in all U.S. jails and prisons.
While the federal government doesn't track illegal alien murders, illegal alien rapes or illegal alien drunk driving deaths, it has studied illegal aliens incarcerated in U.S. prisons.
In April 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a report on a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. It found the following:
"While the vast majority of illegal aliens are decent people who work hard and are only trying to make a better life for themselves and their families, (something you or I would probably do if we were in their place), it is also a fact that a disproportionately high percentage of illegal aliens are criminals and sexual predators," states Peter Wagner, author of a new report called "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration." "That is part of the dark side of illegal immigration and when we allow the 'good' in we get the 'bad' along with them. The question is, how much 'bad' is acceptable and at what price?"
Jeez, folks. Doesn't anybody follow the rules anymore?
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I'll see you, and raise:
Jeez, folks. Doesn't anybody follow the rules anymore?
There. That's better.
I'll see you, and raise:
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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