Posted on 04/17/2007 10:18:12 AM PDT by lowbridge
Would he feel better if he just set the buildings on fire with the doors chained instead??
You just hit on the best reason to support the 2nd Amendment.
Anti-'s only have their own feelings (GUNS are EVIL) and misdirected opinions (I'm not responsible enough to own a gun and I'm smarter than everyone else, ergo, No One is responsible enough).
Pro-'s can back up their opinions with facts and anecdotal evidence all day long.
I tend to side with the latter, rather than people that just think that they know what's best for everyone.
Correct - which means that it's about 1.02 per day. It was 1.45 this time last year.
Oh, and also: 396 rapes
There were 1721 rapes in VA in 2005, or 22.6 per 100,000. In NYC in 2006, there were 1497, or 18.5 per 100,000. Safer than VA.
5,393 robberies
231 per 100,000 vs. 101 per 100,000 for VA. Much less robbery in VA.
4171 fel. assaults
179 per 100,000 for NYC vs. 155 per 100,000 for VA. NYC has 15% more than VA.
Also car thefts are 194 per 100,000 in NYC and 210 per 100,000 in VA.
So basically, you are more likely to be murdered, raped/sodomized or have your car stolen in VA than you are in NYC.
You are more likely to have your wallet or iPod taken or to get punched or kicked in NYC than in VA.
I would prefer losing my wallet over my car.
I would also much prefer getting punched in the stomach to having my brains blown out or being raped.
So NYC fits my preferences pretty well.
What is amazing is that 70% of VA's population is rural whereas 100% of NYC's population is urban.
VA should be several times safer than NYC - but it's actually noticeably more dangerous.
No doubt! /s
Yes, but the disadvantages are entirely on NYC's side of the equation. NYC should suffer by comparison to VA. But yet it doesn't.
There are parts of VA that are known for crime (e.g. Richmond) and parts that are known for safety.
There are parts of NYC that are known for crime (e.g. Brownsville) and parts that are known for safety (i.e. Mill Basin).
Fairfax County VA, where the murderer came from, has the lowest homicide rate in the country. IIRC 0.3 per 100,000.
Fairfax County has a murder rate of 0.3 per 100,000 indeed.
Manhattan South Precinct (where I work), which has a population about the same size as Fairfax County, had a murder rate of 0.3 per 100,000 as well.
And it not only has a permanent population the size of Fairfax County, it has a daytime population almost 3 times the size of Fairfax County.
I love how liberals project. It’s pretty obvious from this article that Micheal Daley is vicious little SOB. He knows deep inside that if he was to possess a gun, it wouldn’t be too long before he’d go postal. So because he, Micheal Daley, would go postal, everyone else needs to be prohibited from possessing guns.
Your sarcasm is unwarranted. The results are in.
Feel different now that the blood is the blood of so many of your most promising young people?””
First, Mike, Why don’t you tell us why “easy” availability of guns is a problem NOW? Guns have never been so regulated and out right banned in America as the last few decades—so what’s the problem, Mikey? What changed?
Country’s 230 yrs old, Mikey, whats the prob? Could it be, Mikey, that mad-dogs of the past DID occasionally try something like this only to be stopped by some God fearing and good citizen who happened to have a gun? Could be, but it’s far more likely that no mad-dog would have BOTHERED trying something like this 50 or 100 years ago BECAUSE of the reasonable likelihood's that they’d be stopped in short order.
Also, Mikey, After we dismiss the 2nd amendment which OTHER amendments are we going to dismiss When the lowest common denominator among us abuses it? Got any ideas, Mikey?
Or don’t you care since are you just a poseing moron, HUH, Mikey?
Daly isn't even a city dweller - he lives and operates only in bohemian neighborhoods and office buildings.
He imagines horrible scenes of mayhem in neighborhoods he never visits.
Even in the worst neighborhoods in NYC 90% of murders occur in the following circumstances: violent thug exchanges words with another violent thug out in the street at 2 in the morning. Alcohol and/or drugs are involved.
The nightmare scenario that every tourist fears - a hapless law-abiding citizen walking in a normal neighborhood in the evening and being stuck up and killed for their jewelry or wallet - almost never happens in NYC.
When it happens it is front page news and there are stories about it in the paper for weeks.
In the late 70s/early 80s it was an almost daily occurrence.
Geez.
Why not add in the Bronx, Kings, Queens, and Crown Heights. That might increase the crime figures a tad.
“Why not add in the Bronx, Kings, Queens, and Crown Heights. That might increase the crime figures a tad.”
Crown Heights is in Kings county (Brooklyn)which along with Queens, Ststen Isl, Bronx, Manhattan make up NYC. When you say New York City you ARE talking about ALL five boroughs.
I wonder how much Washington D.C. is driving Virginia’s numbers up? /Captain of the Obvious
The numbers I've given include all five boroughs - in other words: Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn (also known as Kings), and Queens, and the Bronx, and Crown Heights, which is just one neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Violent crime (per capita): 0.441 per 100 people in NY
Looks like violent crime is 62% higher in NY. No doubt, much safer! /s
It's lost on me why you would think that.
I would expect that DC increases VA's vehicle theft statistics, but I haven't seen any indication that DC residents regularly travel into VA to kill people - they have plenty of work to do right in their own communities.
A good indicator of this is the extremely low murder rate in Fairfax County (0.03 murders per 100,000)which is right on the DC border. Alexandria and Falls Church also have very low murder rates.
Of course, quite a few people arrested for murder in NYC actually live in Newark and other rough parts of NJ - one of the most notorious murders of last year (a drunken college girl who wandered into some abandoned structures along the West Side Highway and was abducted) was committed by a resident of my state.
wb -- I just BRISTLE at someone telling me what is good for me. As long as its legal, I should be allowed to do ANYTHING I want whether they like it or not.
Damn liberals.
Because NYC has a larger population than VA, so you would think that NYC would naturally have more murders and rapes because it has more people. NYC should have an automatic disadvantage.
Because NYC is completely urban, while VA has huge swaths of rural communities where you would expect to have much lower crime rates than in an area as highly urbanized as NYC. You would think that adding all those rural communities into VA's average should make VA have a much lower crime rate than NYC, putting NYC at a statistical disadvantage. But it doesn't.
Because NYC has a much higher proportion of recent and illegal immigrants and has an extra 3 million people traveling through it every day - this larger amount of transients should transalte into higher crime and put NYC at a disadvantage, and yet NYC still comes out ahead.
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