2aguy
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The divide between pro 2nd Amendment supporters and anti gun extremists is fairly easy to see.....2nd Amendment supporters believe that you arrest and lock up criminals to lower the gun crime rate, while anti gunners think that taking guns away from law abiding citizens will lower the gun crime rate......
What do you think?
To reduce shootings, look for better ideas beyond gun control
With this proven data in hand, it’s time that elected officials go where the science tells them and stop attempting to scapegoat law-abiding citizens with laws that more strictly curtail their gun rights.
For decades now, politicians have argued that stricter gun control is the answer. Yet the data doesn’t support such a conclusion, and even at times points in the opposite direction. Year after year, there is no apparent statistical relationship between the prevalence of gun homicides and the prevailing gun policies among the 50 states. As the accompanying chart demonstrates, the widely disparate gun control approaches and gun ownership rates in pairs of states like California and Texas, Illinois and Georgia, Maryland and Tennessee, did not result in significantly different gun murder rates. This has been true in previous years, and it was true once again in 2016, the most recent year for which FBI data are available.
It’s also important to note that the various states’ rates of other violent gun crimes, such as robbery, do not seem to depend on gun policy or gun ownership rates or state gun control laws either.
There is even an argument that when law-abiding citizens are free from the grip of gun-grabbing laws, they are better able to defend themselves and their loved ones. With absurd measures of gun control out of the picture, law-abiding citizens can legally obtain firearms quicker, practice with a wide-variety of firearms, and better defend themselves through concealed and open carry.
Either way, the only people who benefit from stricter gun control laws are criminals. That’s why states and cities across America should be looking for other, more promising ways to reduce crime, as they have done out of desperation in Chicago.
What do you think?
To reduce shootings, look for better ideas beyond gun control
With this proven data in hand, it’s time that elected officials go where the science tells them and stop attempting to scapegoat law-abiding citizens with laws that more strictly curtail their gun rights.
For decades now, politicians have argued that stricter gun control is the answer. Yet the data doesn’t support such a conclusion, and even at times points in the opposite direction. Year after year, there is no apparent statistical relationship between the prevalence of gun homicides and the prevailing gun policies among the 50 states. As the accompanying chart demonstrates, the widely disparate gun control approaches and gun ownership rates in pairs of states like California and Texas, Illinois and Georgia, Maryland and Tennessee, did not result in significantly different gun murder rates. This has been true in previous years, and it was true once again in 2016, the most recent year for which FBI data are available.
It’s also important to note that the various states’ rates of other violent gun crimes, such as robbery, do not seem to depend on gun policy or gun ownership rates or state gun control laws either.
There is even an argument that when law-abiding citizens are free from the grip of gun-grabbing laws, they are better able to defend themselves and their loved ones. With absurd measures of gun control out of the picture, law-abiding citizens can legally obtain firearms quicker, practice with a wide-variety of firearms, and better defend themselves through concealed and open carry.
Either way, the only people who benefit from stricter gun control laws are criminals. That’s why states and cities across America should be looking for other, more promising ways to reduce crime, as they have done out of desperation in Chicago.
