Like the veteran ambulance chasers they are, Liberals use every opportunity to try to hamper gun ownership in America. The latest case in CA is an example. Hardly did the blood stopped flowing, Obama was out there asking for tougher gun laws. But, gun laws in CA are already as O'Bungle wants them. There is one statistic that Liberals shy away from: mass shootings occur in gun-free zones. Would be perps know that they have a half hour to shoot people before the police arrives. This is even acknowledged by some Liberals:
"
According to WaPo, “In 1993, there were seven homicides by firearm for every 100,000 Americans. … By 2013, that figure had fallen by nearly half, to 3.6 [per 100,000].”
Breitbart News previously pointed to this decline and explained it correlated with a massive increase in privately owned firearms over the same period of time. For example, Congressional Research Service showed that the number of privately owned firearms increased from 192 million in 1994 to 310 million in 2009. And record background checks under Obama make it easy to see how tens of millions more privately owned guns have found their way into Americans’ hands since 2009.
So gun ownership increased for 20 years, but “gun homicides” decreased–except in gun free zones.
WaPo points to a study by Mother Jones that claims that high-profile shootings began increasing in gun-free zones in late 2011/early 2012. The examples Mother Jones provides are the Aurora movie theater, Sandy Hook Elementary, and the D.C. Navy Yard, all of which were gun-free zones.
Other examples of shootings in gun-free zones that could have been cited are Arapahoe High School (December 2013), Fort Hood (April 2014), Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (June 2015), Chattanooga military offices (July 2015), the Lafayette Grand Theatre (July 2015), and Umpqua Community College (October 1).
Increases in gun ownership correlated with drastic reductions in firearm-related homicides, but creating zones where law-abiding citizens are denied the ability to be armed for self-defense have allowed high-profile attackers to find easy targets."
Most of the gun violence occurs in urban areas controlled by Democrats. If you ignore rates in NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore and New Orleans, homicides by gun are not different than in other industrial countries. Guns in the hands of law abiding citizens reduce violence.
Friday, December 4, 2015
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment