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Alaska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Nevada, Alabama, and New Mexico are pro gun. They are also in the top ten in violent crime.
So what?
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Alaska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Nevada, Alabama, and New Mexico are pro gun. They are also in the top ten in violent crime.
The pro gun states are all in the top ten in homicides except for states that are largely rural.
uh, no they arentDive, thanks for proving my point.
The pro gun states are all in the top ten in homicides except for states that are largely rural.
They are also in the top ten in violent crime.
The Ten States With the Highest Rates of Firearm Violence
Rank
State
Total Number of Firearm Deaths 2004
Crude Firearm Death Rate 2004
Report Links State Gun Laws To Rates of Slayings, Trafficking
States with lax gun laws had higher rates of handgun killings, fatal shootings of police officers, and sales of weapons that were used in crimes in other states, according to a study underwritten by a group of more than 300 U.S. mayors.
From the American Psychiatric Association's American Journal of Psychiatry :
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/147/3/342
- Guns and suicide: possible effects of some specific legislation
CL Rich, JG Young, RC Fowler, J Wagner and NA Black
[SIZE=-1]Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego.[/SIZE] The authors describe suicide rates in Toronto and Ontario and methods used for suicide in Toronto for 5 years before and after enactment of Canadian gun control legislation in 1978. They also present data from San Diego, Calif., where state laws attempt to limit access to guns by certain psychiatric patients. Both sets of data indicate that gun control legislation may have led to decreased use of guns by suicidal men, but the difference was apparently offset by an increase in suicide by leaping. In the case of men using guns for suicide, these data support a hypothesis of substitution of suicide method.
Jeri Bonavia, executive director of the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, says that the study shows that background checks work, and that they are more effective when they are more thorough. She adds, however, that even requiring additional background checks at licensed dealers will not address the biggest contributor to gun violence: the private sale of guns.
If youre buying a gun from a licensed gun dealer, you need to show identification and go through a background check, Bonavia explains. But if you buy a gun from an unlicensed dealer or private seller, which is perfectly legal, theres no background check required, no ID required. Those sales are legal in Wisconsin and they are the source of the vast majority of crime guns about 90% of crime guns in Wisconsin and nationwide come from this secondary market.
Addressing this loophole, she says, is imperative to reducing the firearm homicide rate. Its amazing to me that were asking the question how are these criminals getting guns? when were not even trying to prevent them, she said.
Study Suggests Additional Background Checks Deter Gun Deaths