Houston police chief criticizes McConnell and Senate Republicans over guns: 'Whose side are you on?'

[Brain357]

Good to hear somebody in law enforcement who gets it. This is the only country where law enforcement is regularly gunned down. This is a real patriot:



"I don't want to hear about how much they support law enforcement," Acevedo said. "I don't want to hear about how much they care about lives and the sanctity of lives yet, we all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and (Texas Sens.) John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women's Act (passed) is because the NRA doesn't like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends. And who killed our sergeant? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the (National Rifle Association)."


Houston police chief criticizes McConnell and Senate Republicans over guns: 'Whose side are you on?'

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Acevedo is an ass. Perhaps if the Democrats were to actually engage in law enforcement there wouldn't be such a problem.

 

[Brain357]

Acevedo is an ass. Perhaps if the Democrats were to actually engage in law enforcement there wouldn't be such a problem.

That what the dead sergeant was doing. Your support for arming criminals is noted.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Acevedo is an ass. Perhaps if the Democrats were to actually engage in law enforcement there wouldn't be such a problem.

That what the dead sergeant was doing. Your support for arming criminals is noted.

The boyfriend had a record and should not have been on the street.

Solis has a criminal history which includes an assault causing bodily injury to a family member in August 2015, Acevedo said.

Who knows what else? Apparently your gun laws did not prevent a criminal from acquiring a firearm. Big surprise.

Violent criminals should be removed from society permanently, or get popped upon conviction with no quarter given.

 

[Mac-7]

Good to hear somebody in law enforcement who gets it. This is the only country where law enforcement is regularly gunned down. This is a real patriot:



"I don't want to hear about how much they support law enforcement," Acevedo said. "I don't want to hear about how much they care about lives and the sanctity of lives yet, we all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and (Texas Sens.) John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women's Act (passed) is because the NRA doesn't like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends. And who killed our sergeant? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the (National Rifle Association)."


Houston police chief criticizes McConnell and Senate Republicans over guns: 'Whose side are you on?'

A big city police chief in a liberal city is appointed and must say what his masters in the liberal city government tell him to say

 

[Brain357]

Acevedo is an ass. Perhaps if the Democrats were to actually engage in law enforcement there wouldn't be such a problem.

That what the dead sergeant was doing. Your support for arming criminals is noted.

The boyfriend had a record and should not have been on the street.

Solis has a criminal history which includes an assault causing bodily injury to a family member in August 2015, Acevedo said.

Who knows what else? Apparently your gun laws did not prevent a criminal from acquiring a firearm. Big surprise.

Violent criminals should be removed from society permanently, or get popped upon conviction with no quarter given.

Thanks to the NRA it is easy for criminals to get guns. Repubs want to keep it that way.

Law enforcement is rarely shot and killed in countries with strong gun control. We bury police regularly here.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Acevedo is an ass. Perhaps if the Democrats were to actually engage in law enforcement there wouldn't be such a problem.

That what the dead sergeant was doing. Your support for arming criminals is noted.

The boyfriend had a record and should not have been on the street.

Solis has a criminal history which includes an assault causing bodily injury to a family member in August 2015, Acevedo said.

Who knows what else? Apparently your gun laws did not prevent a criminal from acquiring a firearm. Big surprise.

Violent criminals should be removed from society permanently, or get popped upon conviction with no quarter given.

Thanks to the NRA it is easy for criminals to get guns. Repubs want to keep it that way.

Law enforcement is rarely shot and killed in countries with strong gun control. We bury police regularly here.

 

[Mac-7]

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[Brain357]

Acevedo is an ass. Perhaps if the Democrats were to actually engage in law enforcement there wouldn't be such a problem.

That what the dead sergeant was doing. Your support for arming criminals is noted.

The boyfriend had a record and should not have been on the street.

Solis has a criminal history which includes an assault causing bodily injury to a family member in August 2015, Acevedo said.

Who knows what else? Apparently your gun laws did not prevent a criminal from acquiring a firearm. Big surprise.

Violent criminals should be removed from society permanently, or get popped upon conviction with no quarter given.

Thanks to the NRA it is easy for criminals to get guns. Repubs want to keep it that way.

Law enforcement is rarely shot and killed in countries with strong gun control. We bury police regularly here.

Dead cops is funny to you eh? You are sick.

 

[Brain357]

We can hope more law enforcement gets tired of being gunned down and demand gun control.

22 officers were killed in the South, more than the rest of the country combined

A 2015 study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that law enforcement homicides were more likely to occur in states with higher gun ownership.

Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi were in the top 20% for both for gun ownership and law enforcement homicides, according to the study, authored by a University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health research assistant professor.

Maria Haberfeld, professor of police science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told ABC News that the availability of guns in the South is likely one of the reasons for the level of violence against police officers in the region.

"You have guns; you have more violence," she said. "In the United States, it seems to be a direct correlation."

 

[Gdjjr]

Police chief blasts NRA, senators after cop's death

In a fiery press conference Monday, Houston's Police Chief lashed out at the National Rifle Association and three top Republican lawmakers - including two from his state - after the recent death of one of his officers.

too bad that jackass wasn't as passionate about his officers who killed 2 innocent people based on lies-

 

[Gdjjr]

Handwritten Notes Document the Collapse of the Phony Story That Led to a Deadly Houston Drug Raid
Police Chief Art Acevedo's observations about the fallen nature of humanity are no substitute for reforms aimed at preventing such abuses.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Acevedo is an ass. Perhaps if the Democrats were to actually engage in law enforcement there wouldn't be such a problem.

That what the dead sergeant was doing. Your support for arming criminals is noted.

The boyfriend had a record and should not have been on the street.

Solis has a criminal history which includes an assault causing bodily injury to a family member in August 2015, Acevedo said.

Who knows what else? Apparently your gun laws did not prevent a criminal from acquiring a firearm. Big surprise.

Violent criminals should be removed from society permanently, or get popped upon conviction with no quarter given.

Thanks to the NRA it is easy for criminals to get guns. Repubs want to keep it that way.

Law enforcement is rarely shot and killed in countries with strong gun control. We bury police regularly here.

Dead cops is funny to you eh? You are sick.

No, you're funny.

 

[depotoo]

Have you even read the boondoggle? There is much good in it, but much that does nothing to help a domestic violence victim. Actually works in the opposite direction.

 

[2aguy]

Good to hear somebody in law enforcement who gets it. This is the only country where law enforcement is regularly gunned down. This is a real patriot:



"I don't want to hear about how much they support law enforcement," Acevedo said. "I don't want to hear about how much they care about lives and the sanctity of lives yet, we all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and (Texas Sens.) John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women's Act (passed) is because the NRA doesn't like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends. And who killed our sergeant? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the (National Rifle Association)."


Houston police chief criticizes McConnell and Senate Republicans over guns: 'Whose side are you on?'

The mayor of Houston is a democrat......so this guy is serving his master....the fascist that controls Houston...


You really are a moron.....actual police chiefs....?

National Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Surveys on Concealed Handgun Reciprocity and other issues - Crime Prevention Research Center


National Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Surveys on Concealed Handgun Reciprocity and other issues - Crime Prevention Research Center

Concealed carry reciprocity: Support

29th annual Survey..... 88.62%
28th.............................86.4%
27th.............................63.3%

Can armed citizens help lower violent crime activity: Support

29th......75.77%
28th......76%
27th.......76.4%

 

[martybegan]

Good to hear somebody in law enforcement who gets it. This is the only country where law enforcement is regularly gunned down. This is a real patriot:



"I don't want to hear about how much they support law enforcement," Acevedo said. "I don't want to hear about how much they care about lives and the sanctity of lives yet, we all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and (Texas Sens.) John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women's Act (passed) is because the NRA doesn't like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends. And who killed our sergeant? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the (National Rifle Association)."


Houston police chief criticizes McConnell and Senate Republicans over guns: 'Whose side are you on?'

How about he gives up his security detail and locks up his gun at his office when he goes home?

 

[2aguy]

Acevedo is an ass. Perhaps if the Democrats were to actually engage in law enforcement there wouldn't be such a problem.

That what the dead sergeant was doing. Your support for arming criminals is noted.

The boyfriend had a record and should not have been on the street.

Solis has a criminal history which includes an assault causing bodily injury to a family member in August 2015, Acevedo said.

Who knows what else? Apparently your gun laws did not prevent a criminal from acquiring a firearm. Big surprise.

Violent criminals should be removed from society permanently, or get popped upon conviction with no quarter given.

Thanks to the NRA it is easy for criminals to get guns. Repubs want to keep it that way.

Law enforcement is rarely shot and killed in countries with strong gun control. We bury police regularly here.

Americans use their legal guns 1.1 million times a year to stop violent criminals according to the Centers for Disease Control.....it is democrats who keep letting violent, repeat gun offenders out of jail and prison over and over again.......

Over the last 26 years, we went from 200 million guns in private hands in the 1990s and 4.7 million people carrying guns for self defense in 1997...to close to 400-600 million guns in private hands and over 18.6 million people carrying guns for self defense in 2018...guess what happened...


-- gun murder down 49%

--gun crime down 75%

--violent crime down 72%

Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware

Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.


The anti-gun hypothesis and argument.....

More Guns = More Gun crime regardless of any other factors.

Actual Result:

In the U.S....as more Americans own and carry guns over the last 26 years, gun murder down 49%, gun crime down 75%, violent crime down 72%

The result: Exact opposite of theory of anti-gunners....

In Science when you have a theory, when that theory is tested....and the exact opposite result happens...that means your theory is wrong. That is science....not left wing wishful thinking.



Whatever the crime rate does......as more Americans owned more guns the crime rate did not go up....so again...

Maine tops ‘safest states’ rankings four years after removing major gun restriction

When Maine passed a “Constitutional Carry” law allowing Maine residents to carry a concealed firearm without any special permit in 2015, opponents of the law forecast a dangerous future for the state. They said the new law would hurt public safety and put Maine kids at risk.



One state representative who opposed the bill went so far as to say it would give Mainers a reason to be afraid every time they went out in public or to work.

Another state representative suggested the law would lead to violent criminals with recent arrests and convictions legally carrying handguns.


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Now four years later, Maine has been named the safest state in the nation according to US News and World Report’s public safety rankings, which measures the fifty states based on crime data.



Ranking as the top safest state for violent crime and fourth for property crime, Maine edges out another New England state, Vermont, for the top spot. Of note, Vermont also is a “Constitutional Carry” state. New Hampshire ranks third in the national rankings, giving New England all three of the top spots in the nation.

In 2018, Maine was edged out by Vermont in the same “safest states” ranking, but declared the best state overall in the broader “Crime and Corrections” category.

In 2017, using a different methodology, Maine was ranked second among the fifty states in the “Crime and Corrections” category and also second in the categories used to rank the “safest states.”

The U.S. News and World Report “Best States” rankings are built in partnership with McKinsey & Company, a firm that works closely with state leaders around the nation.

Maine has also ranked at the top of other state rankings. WalletHub.com recently ranked Maine second in “Personal and Residential Safety” among the fifty states, and third overall.

 

[martybegan]

We can hope more law enforcement gets tired of being gunned down and demand gun control.

22 officers were killed in the South, more than the rest of the country combined

A 2015 study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that law enforcement homicides were more likely to occur in states with higher gun ownership.

Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi were in the top 20% for both for gun ownership and law enforcement homicides, according to the study, authored by a University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health research assistant professor.

Maria Haberfeld, professor of police science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told ABC News that the availability of guns in the South is likely one of the reasons for the level of violence against police officers in the region.

"You have guns; you have more violence," she said. "In the United States, it seems to be a direct correlation."

it's amazing how you want to create an armed overclass, you sniveling peasant.

 

[2aguy]

We can hope more law enforcement gets tired of being gunned down and demand gun control.

22 officers were killed in the South, more than the rest of the country combined

A 2015 study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that law enforcement homicides were more likely to occur in states with higher gun ownership.

Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi were in the top 20% for both for gun ownership and law enforcement homicides, according to the study, authored by a University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health research assistant professor.

Maria Haberfeld, professor of police science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told ABC News that the availability of guns in the South is likely one of the reasons for the level of violence against police officers in the region.

"You have guns; you have more violence," she said. "In the United States, it seems to be a direct correlation."

You are a moron...

Researchers are wrong about private guns, police deaths

The study, which was announced last week and is forthcoming in the American Journal of Public Health, received extensive national and international news coverage. But if the researchers hadn’t left out controls used by everyone else for this type of empirical work, they would have gotten the opposite results from what they claimed.

Previous research has done just that. And it has found that concealed handgun permits lead to fewer police deaths. The authors offered no explanation for the new study’s unorthodox approach.

There is a big benefit to using so-called panel data, where you follow changes in crime rates across many different states over a number of years. Doing that allows you to have many different experiments and makes it possible to more accurately explain for differences in crime rates across states or over time.

A couple of simple examples show why other studies on crime take into account these factors.

Take a common comparison of different countries. As many people point out, the UK has both a lower gun ownership rate and a lower homicide rate than the US does. Yet, it does not logically follow that reducing gun ownership leads to a reduction in crime. And, in fact, after the UK’s 1997 nationwide handgun ban, their homicide rate actually increased by 50 percent over the next eight years. The UK still had a lower homicide rate than the US, but this wasn’t because of the handgun ban. Other factors must have played a role. The ban itself raised their homicide rate.

A similar point applies over time. Suppose a state passes a gun control law at the same time that crime rates are falling nationally. It would be a mistake to attribute the overall drop in national crime rates to the law that got passed. To account for that concern, researchers normally see whether the drop in crime rate for the state that had the change is greater or less than the overall national change.

Looking at data by state over many years allows researchers to account for both of these potential biases, but the American Journal of Public Health study doesn’t account for this bias over time and the authors offer no explanation for this lapse.

If they had done what everyone else does, it would have reversed their results. Instead of their claim of a one-percentage point increase in the percent of suicides committed with guns increasing the total number of police killed by 3.5 percent, they would have found it reducing police killed by 3.6 percent.

 

[pknopp]

I am all for removing the right to own guns from the violent. When done with proper due process.