http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/guns_murders_dc
And so the B.S. begins...... :banghead:
Don't these statistics fly in the face of all criminology research up to this point? Everything I've read states that more guns = less violent crime. I wonder how they're compiling their gun statistics. They must be counting illegal guns that were seized or something like that. (Not that this has any bearing on our IIA RKBA, but the antis will claim it does). There's obviously anti-gun funding behind this study.
This is like claiming that swearing is more common in areas where people exercise the right to free speech. That's what freedom is for. We use it how we want. Some will use it to do bad things; others won't. Yet again, we see more media garbage trying to eliminate the rights of the many for the mistakes of the few.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American states where more people own guns have higher murder rates, including murders of children, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health reported on Thursday.
The study, certain to provoke arguments in a country where gun ownership is an important political issue, found that about one in three U.S. households reported firearm ownership.
"Our findings suggest that in the United States, household firearms may be an important source of guns used to kill children, women and men, both on the street and in their homes," said Matthew Miller, assistant professor of health policy and injury prevention, who led the study.
His team used data from a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey of 200,000 people in all 50 states.
After dividing the states into four groups based on how many households had guns, the researchers found the states in the highest quartile of firearm ownership had overall homicide rates 60 percent higher than states in the lowest quartile.
In states with the most guns, firearm homicide rates were 114 percent higher, the researchers reported in the February issue of Social Science and Medicine.
More than 200 million guns are privately owned in the United States, according to the Justice Department.
In September, the FBI released 2005 figures showing violent crime had risen 2.3 percent nationally -- the first increase in four years.
And so the B.S. begins...... :banghead:
Don't these statistics fly in the face of all criminology research up to this point? Everything I've read states that more guns = less violent crime. I wonder how they're compiling their gun statistics. They must be counting illegal guns that were seized or something like that. (Not that this has any bearing on our IIA RKBA, but the antis will claim it does). There's obviously anti-gun funding behind this study.
This is like claiming that swearing is more common in areas where people exercise the right to free speech. That's what freedom is for. We use it how we want. Some will use it to do bad things; others won't. Yet again, we see more media garbage trying to eliminate the rights of the many for the mistakes of the few.
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