Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Fact: The “time-to-crime” of a firearm ranges from one to 12 years, making it rare that a newly purchased firearm is used in a crime.1
Fact: The national five-day waiting period under the Brady Bill had no impact on murder or robbery. In fact, there was a slight increase in rape and aggravated assault, indicating no [...]

Fact: Not in New Zealand. They repealed their gun registration law in the 1980s after police acknowledged its worthlessness. 1
Fact: Not in Australia. “It seems just to be an elaborate system of arithmetic with no tangible aim. Probably, and with the best of intentions, it may have been thought, that if it were known what [...]

Fact: Schoolyard shootings have been occurring since at least 1974, so it is not a new phenomenon due to increases in gun ownership.1
Fact: More than 1⁄2 of these terrorists start thinking about their assaults two or more weeks before the shooting, and 3⁄4 planned-out their attacks.2

Thoughts: In rural areas, guns are everywhere and children are [...]

Fact: From 1960-1980, per capita imprisonment for violent crimes fell from 738 to 227. In the same period, violent crime rates nationwide tripled.
Fact: Why does crime rise when criminals are released from prison early? Because they are likely to commit more crimes. 67.5% were re-arrested for new felonies or serious misdemeanors within three years. Extrapolating, [...]

Fact: The U.S. government “found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes”1 and also concluded in one study that none of the attackers interviewed was “hindered by any law–federal, state or local–that has ever been established to prevent gun ownership. They just [...]

Fact: Firearm misuse causes only a small number of accidental deaths in the U.S.1 For example, compared to accidental death from firearms, you are:

Four times more likely to burn to death or drown,

17 times more likely to be poisoned,

19 times more likely to fall, and

53 times more likely to die in an automobile accident.

Fact: In [...]

Fact: 66% of police chiefs believe that citizens carrying concealed firearms reduce rates of violent crime.1
Fact: “All the horror stories I thought would come to pass didn’t happen …I think it’s worked out well, and that says good things about the citizens who have permits. I’m a convert.”2
Fact: “I … [felt] that such legislation present[ed] [...]

Fact: This “study”1has multiple defects which, when corrected, reverse the results. Some of the defects of this study include:

Exclusion of the District of Columbia, a high crime city

Use of other crime rates to indirectly explain homicide rates

Use of purely cross-sectional data that never allows control variable analysis

Data from different years is used without any explanation [...]