BamaD -> RE: Canadian gun control... (10/22/2014 7:38:06 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD 46% is not a minimal drop in crime, it is massive. Where?? I don't see that figure in any stats for the US. quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD gun deaths in Australia may have dropped but the murder rate is virtually unchanged, and you know it. The topic is for guns - not other sources. Another strawman diversionary tactic. quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD I said that that one fact did not prove that more guns = less crime, I did not say that they didn't have a good effect on the crime rate. You really are dense, aren't you? Nope. You deny what you have previously stated or implied in other threads. You say it destroys the idea that more guns = more crime. US statistics appear to prove otherwise. The US have more guns per capita than any other OECD country. The US have a much higher rate of gun crime per capita than any other OECD country. Those stats are equatable. More guns per capita therefore make more gun crimes. Again... gun crimes, not other crimes. I am of the view that if you have 100 murders a year 90 with guns and you ban guns. If the next year you only have 10 murders with guns but you still have 100 murders you have gained nothing. You, of course feel better if they are shoved out of windows. the subject isn't reducing gun deaths, it is reducing deaths. By the way my 46% comes from the FBI, I realize that since they aren't British you don't count them. The FBI also says that guns are used to stop violent crime 650,000 times a year. I really don't know where you get the insane idea that I advocate banning of guns. I don't. What I advocate is the banning of guns in public places - all public places. If in the next year you still have 100 murders with only 10 being by gun, that is a distinct advantage because most assaults without a gun would usually also be without a gun. So I dispute that you would still have 100 murders. Or can't you grasp that logic?? Check out these figures: http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2014/03/visualizing-gun-deaths-comparing-the-u-s-to-rest-of-the-world/ Also, you say that the FBI stats show a 46% drop in gun crimes? According to The Guardian, showing stats by state as well as overall (from FBI figures), apart from Hawaii almost all the other states were showing percentage of firearms murders of all murders in the 60% and more range. Overall, the US only dropped by 3% for firearm murder rates. In another chart, it shows a pie chart of murder weapons - 68% is by firearms. It states - The figures show that California had the highest number of gun murders last year - 1,790, which is 68% of all murders that year and equivalent to 3.25 per 100,000 people in the state. Big as that figure is, it's still down by 3% on the previous year Note 3%, not 46%. Data provided by the FBI. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state Also - The 2011 statistics show that the estimated volumes of violent and property crimes declined 3.8 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively, when compared with the 2010 estimates. The violent crime rate for the year was 386.3 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants (a 4.5 percent decrease from the 2010 rate), and the property crime rate was 2,908.7 offenses per 100,000 persons (a 1.3 percent decrease from the 2010 figure). -And- Each of the four violent crime offense estimates decreased when compared with the 2010 estimates. Robbery had the largest decrease at 4.0 percent, followed by aggravated assault with a 3.9 percent decline, forcible rape with a 2.5 percent decline, and murder and nonnegligent manslaughter with a 0.7 percent decrease. Source: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/fbi-releases-2011-crime-statistics Again... not 46% as you claim. You moron I didn't say in one year, in the last 15 years it has dropped from just under 7 to just over 4 in the same time the murder rates in your perfect countries has been stable. And you are still obsessed with just counting gun deaths, you do know they are just as dead if the murder weapon was a knife. In DC the end result of the handgun ban was that while the % of murders committed with firearms was cut in half this was only because the murder rate with firearms remained steady but the total murder rate doubled.
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