Posts under ‘Guns and Crime Prevention’

Fact: “…most criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police.”1
Fact: 11% of police shootings kill an innocent person - about 2% of shootings by citizens kill an innocent person.2
Fact: Police have trouble keeping their own guns. Hundreds of firearms are missing from the FBI and 449 [...]

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: 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 [...]

KENNESAW, Ga - Several Kennesaw officials attribute a drop in crime in the city over the past two decades to a law that requires residents to have a gun in the house.
In 1982, the Kennesaw City Council unanimously passed a law requiring heads of households to own at least one firearm with ammunition.
The ordinance states [...]

A well researched study by Texas A&M in conjunction with the National Center for Policy Analysis sheds some light on the gun control myth:

Gun control laws might be accurately called victim disarmament laws.
The study examines 15 popular gun control myths and the facts against each view. The conclusion sums it up nicely:
Although firearms are [...]

Fact: You are far more likely to survive a violent assault if you defend yourself with a gun. In episodes where a robbery victim was injured, the injury/defense rates were:1
Resisting with a gun [...]