U.S. Murder Toll From Guns Highest in Big Cities: CDC

HealthDay News ^ | May 12, 2011 | Steven Reinberg

[neverdem]

First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws

[NativeNewYorker]

America’s largest city - NYC - has a far far lower murder rate than, say, DC or Philly....and their gun laws are effectively the same.

[EGPWS]

People living in 50 of the largest cities, in fact, accounted for 67% of all firearm homicides.

And most of them are in Chicago where guns are banned....

Perhaps further regulating hand guns is the way to go?/s

[hflynn]

No$hit CDC. More people = more guns.

[reg45]

Perhaps, instead of banning firearms, we should consider banning big cities.

[Red_Devil 232]

Zombies hit hardest.

[ozzymandus]

Well that’s odd. Don’t all these cities already have near total gun bans? Since I’m an NRA member who lives in a small town and has no criminal record, this is probably all my fault.

[TexasRedeye]

Is CDC actually suggesting that more gun control laws don’t help but enforcing existing laws will? Stopped clock?

[Myrddin]

Why can’t these people speak plainly? The problem is black and Mexican gang members. They do poorly in school, so they can’t compete in the normal job market. Selling drugs, shooting competitors and non-paying “customers” is well within their capability. Why do we keep wasting tax money paything the CDC for flowery verbage that never quite points the finger at the problem?

[Vaquero]

first there needs to be a Gag alert

second...if the politicians in the big cities were not afraid to give long prison terms for felons committing crimes with guns, there would be less scum on the streets to commit said crimes...

[troy McClure]

Winner!!!! You are correct.

[Popman]

So in other words 73% of homocides are commited by urban black wanna be gang bangers and street hoods

Strip out the PC and that’s what you get

[rickomatic]

I’d be willing to bet that the ratio for knife, strangling,poison,and baseball batt murders is exactly the same. This is nothing but a gun hit piece.

[Ken H]

Worthless pap if they don't mention race. Blacks are responsible for at least half of the murders in the US despite being 12-13% of the population.

[hinckley buzzard]

Not one of these einsteins apparently bothered to associate young male homicides with gang activity. Nah, more gun control, that's the ticket.

[Gator113]

Large metropolitan areas = lib clusters/infestation.

[mountainlion]

How is that gun control working for you?

[hinckley buzzard]

we should consider banning liberals.

[Paladin2]

"Perhaps, instead of banning firearms, we should consider banning big cities. "

Maybe we should ban 'Rat control of metropolitan districts over ~50,000 pop.

[null and void]

News flash!

More people die where there are more people!