No connection between gun control laws and lowering gun crime rates......

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Facts, truth and reality....things left wing, anti-gun extremists don't care about....

a legal expert's rating on the relative severity of gun control in each state from the Traveler's Guide to the Firearm Laws of the Fifty States. Data from these sources is graphed for each state and presented in Figure 1. The blue dots indicate the crime rate per 100,000 state residents. The higher the blue dot is on the graph, the greater the violent crime rate for that state. Crime rate values are displayed on the right-hand vertical axis. The relative firearm freedom in each state is indicated with a red bar. A short red bar indicates that a state has very restrictive firearm laws. A tall red bar indicates a relatively high acceptance of residents' 2nd Amendment rights. The relative firearm freedom rating, from 0 for total prohibition to 100 for total freedom, is displayed on the left-hand vertical axis.

With the states arranged in order of decreasing violent crime rate from left to right, all it takes is a glance at the figure, and it is obvious that there is no discernible relationship between the two data sets. This means that there is no link between the rate of violent crime in a state and a state's firearm freedom. The only valid conclusion is that gun control does not have a predictable outcome regarding violent crime.

Is it any wonder that the volumes of state and federal gun control legislation do not have much impact on our violent crime rates? Yet year after year, our legislators add more gun control laws to the books, expecting different results each time.

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Yet, gun control laws are Constitutional. That little phrase of a "well regulated militia".

History, the Founders and the SCOTUS are laughing at you.
is that why the SCOTUS supported the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) ?

SCOTUS is capable of error. "Congress shall make no law" applies to the entire Bill of Rights.

If "shall not be infringed" does not mean what it says, what do you think it means?
 
One thing we know does work is enforcing the gun laws we already have on the books.



During the first year of Project Exile (1998), homicides in Richmond declined 33%, for the lowest number since 1987, and armed robberies declined 30%. In 1999, homicides declined another 21%.[2] By 2007, homicides in Richmond were down to 57 compared to 122 in the year before Project Exile.[4]
 
Yet, gun control laws are Constitutional. That little phrase of a "well regulated militia".

History, the Founders and the SCOTUS are laughing at you.
is that why the SCOTUS supported the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) ?

SCOTUS is capable of error. "Congress shall make no law" applies to the entire Bill of Rights.

If "shall not be infringed" does not mean what it says, what do you think it means?
Gun control is not always about about taking your guns away
 
Yet, gun control laws are Constitutional. That little phrase of a "well regulated militia".

History, the Founders and the SCOTUS are laughing at you.
is that why the SCOTUS supported the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) ?

SCOTUS is capable of error. "Congress shall make no law" applies to the entire Bill of Rights.

If "shall not be infringed" does not mean what it says, what do you think it means?
Gun control is not always about about taking your guns away

Pffft.

Answer my question.
 
Yet, gun control laws are Constitutional. That little phrase of a "well regulated militia".

History, the Founders and the SCOTUS are laughing at you.
is that why the SCOTUS supported the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) ?

SCOTUS is capable of error. "Congress shall make no law" applies to the entire Bill of Rights.

If "shall not be infringed" does not mean what it says, what do you think it means?
Gun control is not always about about taking your guns away

Pffft.

Answer my question.
I did.
 
Yet, gun control laws are Constitutional. That little phrase of a "well regulated militia".

History, the Founders and the SCOTUS are laughing at you.
is that why the SCOTUS supported the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) ?

SCOTUS is capable of error. "Congress shall make no law" applies to the entire Bill of Rights.

If "shall not be infringed" does not mean what it says, what do you think it means?
Gun control is not always about about taking your guns away

Pffft.

Answer my question.
I did.

No, you attempted a weak deflection. The question is:

If "shall not be infringed" does not mean what it says, what do you think it means?
 
Yet, gun control laws are Constitutional. That little phrase of a "well regulated militia".

History, the Founders and the SCOTUS are laughing at you.
is that why the SCOTUS supported the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) ?

SCOTUS is capable of error. "Congress shall make no law" applies to the entire Bill of Rights.

If "shall not be infringed" does not mean what it says, what do you think it means?
Gun control is not always about about taking your guns away
no it's about making it harder for law abiding people to get guns while it does nothing to stop criminals from getting guns
 
BREAKING NEWS: Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Massachusetts.
National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”
Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.
During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists.
Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.
Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.
And this fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, 1775.
History. Study it, or repeat it.
 
Facts, truth and reality....things left wing, anti-gun extremists don't care about....

a legal expert's rating on the relative severity of gun control in each state from the Traveler's Guide to the Firearm Laws of the Fifty States. Data from these sources is graphed for each state and presented in Figure 1. The blue dots indicate the crime rate per 100,000 state residents. The higher the blue dot is on the graph, the greater the violent crime rate for that state. Crime rate values are displayed on the right-hand vertical axis. The relative firearm freedom in each state is indicated with a red bar. A short red bar indicates that a state has very restrictive firearm laws. A tall red bar indicates a relatively high acceptance of residents' 2nd Amendment rights. The relative firearm freedom rating, from 0 for total prohibition to 100 for total freedom, is displayed on the left-hand vertical axis.

With the states arranged in order of decreasing violent crime rate from left to right, all it takes is a glance at the figure, and it is obvious that there is no discernible relationship between the two data sets. This means that there is no link between the rate of violent crime in a state and a state's firearm freedom. The only valid conclusion is that gun control does not have a predictable outcome regarding violent crime.

Is it any wonder that the volumes of state and federal gun control legislation do not have much impact on our violent crime rates? Yet year after year, our legislators add more gun control laws to the books, expecting different results each time.

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Data show gun control doesn't reduce US violent crime
I agree. What does work is parental involvement. Teaching children to respect LIFE in general. Letting them feel guilty when they do wrong, instead of making excuses for why they did wrong. THAT makes responsible adults that have trouble taking the life of another.

The only thing gun laws do is disarm law abiding citizens. It does NOTHING to stop the criminals. They get their guns no matter what.
 

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