Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Fact: Adults included – This “statistic” includes “children” up to age 19 or 24, depending on the source. Most violent crime is committed by males ages 16-24, and this myth includes these young adults — many of whom are gang members who die during criminal activity1. Incidentally, a ‘child’ is defined as a person between [...]

Fact: Most expert long distance shooters cannot hit a stationary target under perfect, windless conditions at such distances (one notable exception in Vietnam1). Ill-trained terrorists shooting a high-recoil .50-caliber rifle at fast moving targets – a 600 mph airplane, for instance – have no chance.
Fact: The only known uses of .50-caliber weapons in downing aircraft [...]

Fact: According to the federal government, gun ‘buybacks’ have “no effect”.1
Fact: “Buy backs” remove no more than 2% of the firearms within a community. And the firearms that are removed do not resemble guns used in crimes. “There has never been any effect on crime results seen”.2
Fact: Up to 62% of people trading in a [...]

Fact: Of the 2,500,000 annual self-defense cases using guns, more than 7.7% (192,500) are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse.
Fact: When a woman was armed with a gun or knife, only 3% of rape attacks are completed, compared to 32% when unarmed.1
Fact: The probability of serious injury from an attack is 2.5 times greater [...]

Fact: You do not need a license to buy a car. You can buy as many as you want and drive them all you like on your own property without a license.
Fact: Cars are registered because they are (a) sources of tax revenue, (b) objects of fraud in some transactions, and (c) significant theft targets. [...]

Fact: Though the number of firearms owned by private citizens has been increasing steadily since 1970, the overall rate of homicides and suicides has not risen.1 As the chart shows, there is no correlation between the availability of firearms and the rates of homicide and suicide in America.
Fact: Internationally speaking “There’s no clear relationship [...]

Fact: During the Clinton administration, federal prosecutions of gun-related crimes dropped more than 44 percent.1
Fact: Of the 3,353 prohibited individuals that obtained firearms, the Clinton administration only investigated 110 of them (3.3%).2
Fact: Despite 536,000 prohibited buyers caught by the National Instant Background Check,only 6,700 people (1.25%) have been charged for these firearms violations. This includes [...]

Fact: Non-firearm juvenile violent crime rate in the U.S. is twice that of 25 other industrialized western nations. The non-firearm infant-homicide rate in the U.S. is 3.5 times higher.1 Thus we have a violence problem – not a “gun” problem.
Fact: Non-firearm related homicides of children out-rank firearm related homicides by children almost 5-to-12
This is an [...]