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tlambert | September 11, 1997Viktor writes:
Of course, we know here in America that the highest crime rates for
the past 50 years are in the cities that have the strictest gun
control laws (Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Detroit)
imposed on innocent people - the distinction being, there can be no
gun control that is effective on criminals since they are willing to
break the law in the first place.
Too bad for you that it easy to find the actual statistics on the web.
Aggravated Assault
OFFICIAL DEFINITION: An unlawful attack by one person pon another for
the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily…
tlambert | May 8, 1996Lawrence Kennon writes:
The following documents exactly the kind of "junk science" being
foisted off on the public by the medical profession, and in
particular the CDC and the NEJM.
It does nothing of sort.
There are dozens of falsehoods, and dozens of claims that are
extremely dubious. It would be possible to put these down as honest
errors, caused by Suter's pro-gun bias, except for the following
example which can only have resulted from blatant dishonesty on
Suter's part:
Edgar Suter writes:
harmful and unconstitutional nostrums
Crime and homicide rates are highest in jurisdictions,…
tlambert | March 4, 1995No I have not. I quote from page 173: "there is a positive
relationship [of firearms ownership] with firearms murder but not with
criminal homicide generally." See table 9.2 on page 174.
I should note again that Bordua felt that this relation was spurious
but that his reasoning was faulty. In any case, the relationship does
exist
Rick Cook writes:
So Bourda found what he considered a spurious relationship and you trust
his work enough to believe that the relationship existed, but you don't
believe the relationship was spurious.
All right then: The relationship exists (provided Bordua did…
tlambert | February 11, 1995Pim van Meurs writes:
Of course there will always be an uncertainty in the findings that's
why there are statistical error bounds and statistical significance
bounds. However in case of gun ownership at city level Kleck showed
the causal direction of gun ownership increasing the use of guns in
crimes like robbery and assault.
David Veal writes:
Kleck also reports in Point Blank (among other studies) studies by
Murray (state level) and Bordua (county level) which found no causal
relationship between gun ownership (measured directly) and the rate
of gun homicide.
Murray's study looked at gun…
tlambert | December 1, 1993Dean Payne writes:
"For example, in 1974 Massachusetts passes the Bartley-Fox
Law, which requires a special license to carry a handgun outside the
home or business. The law is supported by a mandatory prison sentence.
Studies by Glenn Pierce and William Bowers of Northeastern University
documented that after the law was passed handgun homicides in
Massachusetts fell 50% and the number of armed robberies dropped 35%."
Actually Pierce and Bowers found that the number of GUN robberies
dropped 35%. The number of armed robberies only fell by 15%.
According to Kleck ("Point Blank..."), many…
tlambert | February 19, 1993Diederich Andrew Richard said:
What you need to know before the fight begins is that the gun control
lobby has no intention of fighting a good fight based on truth
and accuracy. They intend to use disinformation, inaccuracy and lies
to mislead you.
And then follows an article full of disinformation, inaccuracy and
lies. I'll just comment on the new stuff.
Remember Morton Grove? That was the suburban community in Illinois
where liberal anti-gunners wrested control of local government and
passed a local ordinance that prohibited anyone but a peace officer
from owning a handgun.
What the…
tlambert | February 18, 1993Diederich Andrew Richard said:
According to a 1986 survey of 2,000 imprisoned felons:
57% believed encountering an armed victim is the
worst thing that could happen.
False. The closest thing I could find in Wright and Rossi [1] to this is
57% agreed that "Most criminals are more worried about meeting an
armed victim than they are about running into the police", which is
hardly the same thing at all. When asked what THEY (rather than
others) regularly worried about, the results were:
Might get caught 34
Might have to go to prison 30
Family might look down on you 30
Might…