Posted on 08/23/2013 2:27:37 PM PDT by sdnet
Once again, a study from an organization that you would never accuse of being “gun-loving” or “right-wing” seems to disprove the myth that the availability of handguns increases murder rates. In fact, it doesn’t.
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 than 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at smallgovtimes.com ...
The first weapon was a rock. Try to ban rocks.
My guess is that too many people had access to the raw data for them to be able to lie ... That’s probably the only reason they told the truth.
This was posted in the Harvard Law Review, it is not a Harvard study. Done by 2 criminologists, one with the Pacific Research Institute and one who teaches at Simon Fraser in Canada.
Please read the link first.
Or, a bone. Same thing... try and ban them.
Sorry - The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
So, you think that the researchers had the guts to admit that it is a culture thing?
The crime rate among whites in this country is roughly equivalent to the more peaceful countries in Europe.
It only gets ugly when you factor in blacks and “hispanics.”
Of course, it is racist to notice such a thing...
I don’t need a Harvard study to tell me what common sense has always told me. I also recall reading a book by John Lott called “More Guns Less Crime” back in 1995 or so. This study from Harvard is a day late and a dollar short. They probably lifted the data from Lotts’ book. Worthless leftwing college.
That all depends on what your goals are. If genocide is on the agenda, then gun control is very effective.
We are never really safe while there are any physical objects in the universe.
All matter and anti-matter but be banned!
I can't speak for Hispanics (or minorities for that matter). But between the black on black crime and abortion, their culture is one of self population control.
The most evil object in the universe is not physical.
Say it ain’t so! And from Harvard, no less. Obama will be po’d at his alma mater.
I seem to recall a guy using the jawbone of an ass to kick a lot of it.
“Gun control” is designed to control people not guns.
I read Lott's book too... the man was ahead of his time....
Ban Sons of Obama and watch crime plummet!
the last weapons will be rocks too.
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