Posted on 06/08/2005 10:49:17 AM PDT by 45Auto
So much for "anti-gun hysterics" and predictions of "blood running in the streets," a Second Amendment group says.
Nine months after the Clinton-era "assault weapons ban" expired, the FBI has released crime statistics showing a drop in homicides in 2004 -- the first such drop since 1999. The FBI report said all types of violent crime declined last year, and cities with more than a million people showed the largest drops in violent crime.
When the Clinton ban on certain semiautomatic weapons expired last September, gun control groups warned that violent crime would escalate, including violence against children.
But those "doom and gloom" forecasts have been exposed as "pure clap-trap," said SAF President Joe Tartaro.
"Where is the news media on this?" Tartaro wondered. He said if the number of homicides had gone up, reporters would be writing front-page stories linking the rise to the end of the semi-auto ban.
"But that's not the case, and the mainstream press, with the exception of an April 28 New York Times article, has been pretty quiet about it," Tartaro said.
The FBI crime report is more proof that the rhetoric from anti-gunners is bogus, Tartaro added. "The press should now question all the other outrageous claims and predictions from the gun control crowd."
"The gun control movement is, and always has been, built on a foundation of hysteria and lies," SAF Founder Alan Gottlieb said.
"From their lawsuits against gun makers to their assaults on the firearm civil rights of law-abiding American citizens, these gun grabbers have been deliberately deceitful and consistently wrong."
Amen! Love my gun.
DESPITE????????You mean because of.........
Not likely.
"More guns, less crime!"
It is amazing how that seems to happen all over America.
Throw in some mandatory 2 or 3 strike rules to keep liberal judges from releasing professional criminals with the above, and crime rates drop.
Dang it.
The powerful figures in the gun control crowd like Sarah Brady are simply liars; they know the facts but still seek to disarm us because they're evil. I never make the assumption that Brady and folks like her are just dumb like her activist followers. They know what they're doing, they know they're out for more control.
No, like other liberal causes, it has been built on the certainty of certain assumptions the intelligensia have formed. These assumptions could be questioned with evidence and facts -- like the FBI report in this story -- but since the assumptions are "known" to be correct the left must wait until some intellectual elite comes up with another explaination. When this new explaination is found, the media will be only too quick to give it press and air time.
BTTT
Don't be so sure of yourself, Mr. Tartaro. One school shooting with a once-banned gun and it's all over, my friend. They're just biding their time.
Increases and decreases in crime are a product of highs and lows in collective social mood, not availability of firearms:
http://www.socionomics.org/
http://www.babylontoday.com/stocks_bonds.htm
Bing, bang, boom!
Maybe "crime" has dropped because more criminals have realized its easier to make a fortune as attorneys and they all went to law school. There is probably some kind of character link between lawyers and crooks.
Now instead of mugging little old ladies, they are chasing ambulances and running adds about the possible side effects of medicines.
Gun CONTROL
and only the hoplophobic graboids are surprised by this.
I doubt this.
first: define "collective social mood"
second: prove that this exists
third: demonstrate how this will affect the decision making processes of individual hoodlums, where the likelihood of having their heads blown off would not.
Uhm, I thought that was Bush 1's baby.
I printed it out, but I don't have a web link to the article. It said all you might expect, closing with something like "The reason crime didn't drop is because of all the loopholes. If the government were serious about affecting crime rates, it should enact a greatly strengthened AWB that bans many more things, and will never sunset."
If you're not going to read links try using a little logic. Collective social mood is also what drives markets and economies, and when economies sink into recession/depression it further increases low social mood and pessimism. This in turn reduces individual purchasing, manufacturing optimism, and following that job creation. When folks get laid off they can't pay their bills and don't feel so warm and fuzzy. Of course the poor guy in the ghetto has never seen worse prospects for employment and acts accordingly figuring he's got nothing to loose. At least on the inside he gets 3 squares.
The U.S. is BEGINNING to reap the after-effects of the greatest economic and faux money bubble spike peak in the history of the republic.
http://www.babylontoday.com/general_assets.htm#mania
Now suppose that we roughly follow Japan's correction, which would be consistent with EVERY historical correction following this kind of event. However, the Japanese started their depression as the world's leading creditor nation with the world's highest personal savings rate. Today their housing market is at 50% of former values even 25 years later. Do you really think that the kind of economic/banking fallout, from a similar social mood in the U.S., wouldn't increase crime and thereby gun violence?
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