Harvard study shows privately owned guns are very effective crime fighting tools
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
A little heralded Harvard Journal
of Law & Public Policy study holds some devastating news for those who are
trying to take guns from America’s population.
Here are the facts the study
found.
The overall message of the report
is that nations with private gun ownership have less crime.
In the period 1991 to 2011 gun
ownership rose steadily; murders by guns fell 39% and firearms related crimes
dropped 69%.
The nine European countries with
the fewest guns have a combined murder rate three times higher than the nine
European countries with the most guns in private hands.
With rare exceptions, since 1950
mass shootings have virtually always occurred in states with restrictive gun
ownership laws. Moreover despite very strict laws against private gun
ownership, three of the worst recorded school shootings have happened in
Europe.
Contrary to liberal lies, while
America leads the world in private gun ownership, we are just 28th in gun
murders per 100,000 people.
From 1991 to 2011, America’s
overall violent crime rate and our murder rate both fell by half; a remarkable
feat by any measure.
On average 200,000 American women
protect themselves from sexual attacks each year using guns.
By a ratio of 80 to 1 Americans
use guns for crime prevention rather than to commit murders.
During the period studied (1991 to
2011) deaths by accidental discharges of firearms fell 58%.
Much to the contrary of liberal
lies the UK’s violent crime rate in 4 times higher than ours and their rape
rate is 125% higher than ours. The UK also has 133% more assaults than we
do.
After plunging into extreme gun
banning Australia has experienced a 19% increase in murders and an increase of
69% in armed robberies.
Despite passing increasingly more
restrictive gun control laws, Chicago’s homicide rate jumped 17% last year and
by many measures it’s the most deadly city in the world.
Over the 23 years, following its
implementation of a law requiring each household to have a gun, Kennesaw
Georgia saw its overall crime rate drop by 50% and its burglary rate fall by
89%.
Source:
No comments:
Post a Comment