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Do guns prevent crime?
Torchmanner ~PWCM~JLA
December 31, 2009 15:42:24
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FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders As Firearm, Ammunition And “Large” Magazine Sales Soar
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963—a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI next year.
According to gun control supporter dogma—“more guns means more crime”—the number of privately owned firearms must have decreased 10 percent in 2009. To the contrary, however, the number rose between 1.5 and 2 percent, to an all-time high. For the better part of the last 15 months, firearms, ammunition, and “large” ammunition magazines have been sold in what appear to be record quantities. And, the firearms that were most commonly purchased in 2009 are those that gun control supporters most want to be banned—AR-15s, similar semi-automatic rifles, and handguns designed for defense. The National Shooting Sports Foundation already estimates record ammunition sales in 2009, dominated by .223 Remington, 7.62x39mm, 9mm and other calibers widely favored for defensive purposes.
Also indicative of the upward trend in firearm sales, the number of national instant check transactions rose 24.5 percent in the first six months of 2009 compared to the first six months in 2008, the greatest increase since NICS’ inception in 1998. Through the end of October, NICS transactions rose18 percent, compared to the same period in 2008.
More Guns Means More Crime? Hardly. In 2009, more guns meant less crime, in a very, very big way.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2009prelimsem/index.html
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963—a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI next year.
According to gun control supporter dogma—“more guns means more crime”—the number of privately owned firearms must have decreased 10 percent in 2009. To the contrary, however, the number rose between 1.5 and 2 percent, to an all-time high. For the better part of the last 15 months, firearms, ammunition, and “large” ammunition magazines have been sold in what appear to be record quantities. And, the firearms that were most commonly purchased in 2009 are those that gun control supporters most want to be banned—AR-15s, similar semi-automatic rifles, and handguns designed for defense. The National Shooting Sports Foundation already estimates record ammunition sales in 2009, dominated by .223 Remington, 7.62x39mm, 9mm and other calibers widely favored for defensive purposes.
Also indicative of the upward trend in firearm sales, the number of national instant check transactions rose 24.5 percent in the first six months of 2009 compared to the first six months in 2008, the greatest increase since NICS’ inception in 1998. Through the end of October, NICS transactions rose18 percent, compared to the same period in 2008.
More Guns Means More Crime? Hardly. In 2009, more guns meant less crime, in a very, very big way.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2009prelimsem/index.html
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We need to enact stiffer penalties for violent crimes -- with or without a gun. Enforce three strikes-type laws. Enforce the death penalty if we have it. Do more pro-active policework to investigate leads of potentially dangerous people owning guns.
Regardless, unless we want to rewrite the Constitution, we have the right to keep and bear arms.
Where personal possession or ownership of firearms have been restricted, the violent crime rate invariably goes up.
Lock and load!
Shoot a criminal today. (Cap a socialist while you are at it)
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Proponents of more gun control confuse me....They choose to exercise their rights to NOT keep and bear arms; why must they feel that in order to do that they must infringe upon our rights to keep and bear arms.
I promise that I will not take away their right to be victims if they so choose!
Now if they would agree......;-)
Hubby says says it best, "I don't want absolute control. I want control absolutely."
It used to be funny. Until now. Now I understand what that really means. They are the masters at manipulation; and I thought my mother was a pro at that!
I do think however there are more poor than rich.
And just being "Poor" might create crime.
Also when Drugs and kreep are getting across the borders- will also create more crime.
And it's good to have one.
Sometime the cops just cannot get there in a nick of time.
I think we should have the right to defend ourselves.
I know many women that got a gun and a permit to use it and that is because they work in downtown Pgh.
Yep a gun might just save thier very own lives.
Even our cops are getting shot.
Here.
In the friendly city of Pittsburgh.
And so much more to say about this.
But to many words for others to read.
I also think when you board a plane they should hand each passanger a gun!
Maybe then we would be safe.
Cool gun! Cool granny.....
My house is armed with Smith&Wesson; and it is my right.
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