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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: Nosathro

According to a report Texas Law Enforcement was well aware that the Ayran Brotherhood was making plans against Texas Law Enforcement. The warning used the phase "mass casualties". It is strange, Texas one of the most liberal pro gun owning states with easy to obtain concealed weapons permits and Stand Your Ground Law, the theory with all the armed citizens criminals like the Aryan Brotherhood would run in fear of all this, looks like the theory is not working.

We know that, in general, criminals are deterred by armed citizens. Intending to build the case for comprehensive federal gun restrictions, the Carter administration awarded a major National Institute of Justice (NIJ) research grant in 1978 to University of Massachusetts sociology professor James Wright and his colleagues Peter Rossi and Kathleen Daly. Wright had already editorialized in favor of much stricter controls. Rossi would later become president of the American Sociological Association. Daly would later win the Hindelang Award, the highest prize bestowed by the American Society of Criminology, for her feminist perspectives on criminology.

When the NIJ authors rigorously examined the data, they found no persuasive evidence in favor of banning handguns for self-defense. Wright and Rossi produced another study for the NIJ. Interviewing felony prisoners in eleven prisons in ten states, Wright and Rossi discovered that:

34% of the felons reported personally having been "scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim."
8% said the experience had occurred "many times."
69% reported that the experience had happened to another criminal whom they knew personally.
40% had personally decided not to commit a crime because they thought the victim might have a gun.
56% said that a criminal would not attack a potential victim who was known to be armed.
74% agreed with the statement that "One reason burglars avoid houses where people are at home is that they fear being shot."

Notably, "the highest concern about confronting an armed victim was registered by felons from states with the greatest relative number of privately owned firearms." Furthermore: The authors concluded "the major effects of partial or total handgun bans would fall more on the shoulders of the ordinary gun-owning public than on the felonious gun abuser of the sort studied here.

Abstract (click "Download This Paper" for full PDF)

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And none of this stopped to Texas DA from being killed, nor a West Virgina Sheriff in his car. It really does look like the Criminals are leaving...