Look for yourself: http://www.policeforum.org/library/crime/PERFPresentationonGunViolence.pdf
Obama said the PERF 2010 survey found that more than one third of police departments reported an increase in criminals' use of assault weapons and high capacity magazines since the prohibition expired in 2004. Here's what the PERF surveys said in the URL posted above...
Gun crime with previously banned assault weapons - 58% said same or less, 9.7% said increasing (rest responded "don't know").
Gun crime with high capacity magazines - 56.9% said same or less, 13.7% said increasing.
Gun Theft - 42% same or less, 42.2% increasing.
Street purchasing of ILLEGAL guns - 27.5% same or less, 31% increasing.
Where gun crime is rated as "problematic" or "very extensive", the key factors given were rated as 45.1% gangs, 41.7% drugs.
Even if you add together the 9.7% that said assault weapon crimes were increasing and the 13.7% that said high capacity magazine use in crimes was increasing, you're still way under "one third". And when the police respond that gangs and drugs are responsible for almost 90% of the gun crimes they see, the path forward is to restrict the hardware that can be owned by LAW ABIDING people?
Sorry, Mr. President, your "facts" stink and your "solutions" stink worse.
Obama said the PERF 2010 survey found that more than one third of police departments reported an increase in criminals' use of assault weapons and high capacity magazines since the prohibition expired in 2004. Here's what the PERF surveys said in the URL posted above...
Gun crime with previously banned assault weapons - 58% said same or less, 9.7% said increasing (rest responded "don't know").
Gun crime with high capacity magazines - 56.9% said same or less, 13.7% said increasing.
Gun Theft - 42% same or less, 42.2% increasing.
Street purchasing of ILLEGAL guns - 27.5% same or less, 31% increasing.
Where gun crime is rated as "problematic" or "very extensive", the key factors given were rated as 45.1% gangs, 41.7% drugs.
Even if you add together the 9.7% that said assault weapon crimes were increasing and the 13.7% that said high capacity magazine use in crimes was increasing, you're still way under "one third". And when the police respond that gangs and drugs are responsible for almost 90% of the gun crimes they see, the path forward is to restrict the hardware that can be owned by LAW ABIDING people?
Sorry, Mr. President, your "facts" stink and your "solutions" stink worse.
