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control laws affect the incidence of crime and protect or victimize the
population, and you like to play with numbers and other significant data, this
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U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people
The
United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most
heavily armed society in the world
New Findings From The FBI About Cop Attackers & Their
Weapons
Nearly 40% of the offenders had some
type of formal firearms training, primarily from the military. More
than 80% "regularly practiced with handguns, averaging 23 practice
sessions a year," the study reports, usually in informal settings
like trash dumps, rural woods, back yards and "street corners in
known drug-trafficking areas."
Firearms in Australia: a guide to electronic
resources
All you ever wanted to know about
firearms in Australia, and then some!
Why Adopt a
Vermont-style CCW Law?
There are many reasons for a state to
adopt a genuine right to carry law
Concealed carry licenses
percentage of population by state
Here
is the list of all shall-issue states, and the percentages of the populations
that have carry licenses. The information comes from Chris Bird and the CCRKBA,
and state websites
Would banning Firearms Reduce Murder and
Suicide? A Review of International Evidence
by Gary A. Mauser & John B. Kates
This article examines a broad range of
international data that bear on two distinct but interrelated
questions: first, whether widespread firearm access is an important
contributing factor in murder and/or suicide, and second, whether
the introduction of laws that restrict general access to firearms
has been successful in reducing violent crime, homicide or suicide.
Should Teachers Carry Guns?
Several papers by John
Lott provide detailed information on the subject:
The Crime-Statistics Con Job
by John Lott
Over the last six months, the Police
Executive Research Forum, the chief executives of primarily large
police departments, has gotten the media concerned that the country
is threatened by a sudden upsurge in violent crime and murder. It becomes a lot less scary when one
realizes that the violent crime rate fell for 13 straight years, a
total drop of 39 percent, before increasing in 2005 by less than 1
percent.
Menu of research finding a drop in violent crime
rates from Right-to-carry laws
The Lies Are Worth A Shot
Perhaps the best example of a lie
turning accepted truth is the so-called Kellerman study.
Unfortunately for Dr. Kellerman and for ecstatic gun control
advocates everywhere, the study has been thoroughly debunked —
repeatedly — since then.
Death by Murder
by Ben Best
Gathering as much information as
possible about the conditions under which murder can occur is a
major step towards being able to take preventative action. A prudent
step towards reducing one's chance of being murdered is to avoid
being in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it therefore seems
reasonable to begin by determining what some of the "wrong places"
are.
Association Between Youth-Focused Firearm Laws and
Youth Suicides
JAMA. 2004
There is evidence that CAP laws are
associated with a modest reduction in suicide rates among
youth aged 14 to 17 years. As currently implemented,
minimum age restrictions for the purchase and possession
of firearms do not appear to reduce overall rates of
suicide among youth.
The
First Decade Of The Tennessee Handgun Permit Law
Data obtained from the Tennessee
Department of Safety, the regulatory agency for the handgun permits,
shows that less than 1 % of permits have been rescinded from active
permit holders.
300,000 Hoosiers have gun permits
Nearly one in 15 Indiana adults have gun
permits, which they can get once they turn 18 -- and without going
through any training.
Last year, about 76,000 permits were
issued, and so far this year, about 35,000 have been handed out.
They're good for four years.
Add Gun Control To Litany Of Misbegotten
Gov't Plans
by
John
R. Lott Jr. and Eli Lehrer
From Britain to Australia to Canada,
promises of lower crime rates from gun control have turned into
historic increases in crime.
MI - Our quiet rise in handguns
Law enforcement officers and local officials say
Michigan's streets are no safer - or more dangerous - than they were three years
ago when the law went into effect. But there have been no major incidents
involving people with the permits. No accidental discharges. No murders. No
anarchy.
The
Lott-Mustard Study
Using cross-sectional time-series data for U.S.
counties from 1977 to 1992, we find that allowing citizens to carry concealed
weapons deters violent crimes, without increasing accidental deaths. If those
states without right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992,
county- and state-level data indicate that approximately 1,500 murders would
have been avoided yearly.
What Gun Controllers Don't Want You to Know
by
Howard Nemerov
I found that the gun control groups consistently
lied or twisted minor factoids taken out of context in their articles. This
begged the question: if they are lying to advance their agenda, can we really
trust the utopian outcome they promote as true?
Firearm Safety in America
Data compiled from the
National Safety Council (NSC) Accident Facts: 1996 Edition
The Truth About "The Florida
Model"
"Violent crime
rates are highest overall in states with laws severely limiting or
prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms for self-defense". (FBI
Uniform Crime Reports, 1992) |
