All That Needs To Be Said About Lame Ass Gun Control Laws
Taken from this editoral is this lovely chunk of statistics. Numbers don’t lie.
Different parts of this country display disparities in rates of serious crimes. But that crime rate has been falling steadily for almost 20 years. While many factors undoubtedly contribute to that trend, including tougher sentencing laws, the ability of people to defend themselves also counts.
The 40 states (including Maine) where concealed-carry permits are readily available to law-abiding people report on average a 22 percent lower violent crime rate, a 30 percent lower murder rate, a 46 percent lower robbery rate and a 12 percent lower aggravated assault rate than the 10 states where the possession of firearms by honest citizens is greatly…restricted.
Its makes basic sense that the appropriate policy response to mass shootings is letting citizens arm themselves. Bringing in a large state aparatus to remove all the guns is would only work in the fantasy land of liberalville.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Two possible problems for this data come to mind - it is extremely easy to traffic guns across state lines, and maybe the states that already have higher crime rates are more likely to outlaw guns. A more compelling study would longitudinally compare changes in violent crime rates across a sample of some nations that banned it and some that did not. Even then, correlation does not guarantee causation, but that sort of study would be much more convincing.
December 15th, 2007 at 1:55 am
As long as guns are legal, citizens should be allowed to carry them. My argument has always been that you would see improvements if guns were illegal altogether, which isn’t true in any state.
The simple fact that you say ‘enforcement is impossible’ over and over and over and over, doesn’t make it true. Please let me know if you have a substantive argument as to why enforcement is impossible, otehrwise I’ll coontinue to disagree.