Posts under ‘Guns Availablity’

Fact: Of the 43 deaths reported in this flawed study, 37 (86%) were suicides. Other deaths involved criminal activity between the family members (drug deals gone bad).1
Fact: Of the remaining deaths, the deceased family members include felons, drug dealers, violent spouses committing assault, and other criminals.2
Fact: Only 0.1% (1 in a thousand) of the defensive [...]

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: 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: 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 [...]

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 [...]