oneyearorange
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The funny part is you start these threads by making it sound like we might be able to change your opinions and the way you think. I think we all know that you have your views and there is no changing them.
Guns prevent an estimated 2.5million crimes per year or 6849 per day!
* Gary Kleck, Criminologist, Florida State Univ.
Every day 550 rapes, 1100 murders, and 5200 violent crimes per day are prevented just by showing a handgun! In less than 0.9 percent of the time is the gun actually fired.
* Gary Kleck, Criminologist, Florida State Univ.
Every year people in theUS use guns to defend them selves against criminals an estimated, 2,500,000 times more than 6,500 people a day or once every 13 seconds! This means that each year guns are used 65 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives!
* Fall 1995, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Of the 2,500,000 annual self defense cases using guns, more than 7.7% are woman protecting them selves from sexual crimes!
* U.S. Dept. of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration,
Rape Victimization in 26 American Cities, 1979
When citizens are allowed to carry fire arms murder rates drop 8% Rape rates drop 5%. More to the point crime is significally higher in the states with out right to carry laws!
Stats in gun restrictive states
Violent Crime 81% higher
Murder .. 86% higher
Rape 25% higher
Assault 82% higher
Robbery .. 105% higher
Auto Theft .. 60% higher
* John Lott, David Mustard: This study involved county level crime statistics from all
3,054 counties in the U.S. from 1977 through 1992. During this time, ten states adopted right-to-carry laws. It is estimated that if all states had adopted right-to-carry laws, in 1992 the U.S. would have avoided 1,400 murders, 4,200 rapes, 12,000 robberies, 60,000 aggravated assaults- and would have saved over $5,000,000,000 in victim expenses.
Think of it this way. Would you feel safer breaking into some one's house in Texas or some ones house in Massachusetts? Guns should be legal because they keep us safe! I own a small arsenal my self and love knowing the fact my family and I is protected.
After Canada's 1977 gun controls prohibited handgun possession for self defense, the "breaking and entering" crime rate rose 25%, surpassing the U.S. rate! Are those facts enough for you GK or should I keep on ranting?
* Pat Mayhew, Residential Burglary: A Comparison of the United States,
Canada and England and Wales (Nat'l Inst. Of Just., Wash., D.C., 1987)
MYTH: Japan has strict gun control and a less violent society
FACT: In Japan, the murder rate is about 1 per 100,000. In the U.S., there are about 3.2 murders per 100,000 each year by weapons other than firearms.
* United Nations data
therefore, if all of the firearms in the U.S. could magically be eliminated, we would still have three times the murder rate of Japan.
FACT: There are more guns in the U.S. than cars (228,000,000 guns according to the 1998 FBI statistics and 207,754,000 automobiles according to the 1998 Federal Highway Administration registrations). Yet, you are 31 times more likely to be accidentally killed by a car than a gun according to the National Safety Council despite cars having been registered and licensed for more than 100 years.
FACT: 90% of all violent crime in the U.S. does not involve any gun of any type.FACT: Less than 1% of all guns will ever be used in the commission of any type of crime (much less violent crime).* 1998 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
*FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1994
FACT: Two-thirds of the people that die each year from gunfire are criminals shooting other criminals.
* FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1994
The funny part is you start these threads by making it sound like we might be able to change your opinions and the way you think. I think we all know that you have your views and there is no changing them.
You know what scares me.. NOTHING... LOLGuns dont scare me but people like GK do....people who think Its not good enough to not own one themselves but who also think I shouldnt be allowed to own one either.
GK have you ever fired a gun for sport? I'm just curious.
Or maybe if you had been armed and shot the first thief bastard you would have set an example and only been robbed that once.in 20 years in the restaurant business I had the privilege to get robbed 4 times...armed robbery is not for the faint of heart. But, I escaped injury...if I had been armed, I might not have been that lucky.
there is that....Or maybe if you had been armed and shot the first thief bastard you would have set an example and only been robbed that once.
I think I get what you mean by experience truth, but I'm not really sure. Maybe you can explain that. I wasn't trying to jump down your throat either. Even though we might disagree on some issues I respect your views and opinions. I am impressed by the way that you put a lot of effort into stating them. Your a deep thinker and that's awesome. Don't change! If you think guns should be legal but need better laws than we are both on the same page. Oh and whats wrong with my wife? She wants to know why you wouldn't hit that?
what city?in 20 years in the restaurant business I had the privilege to get robbed 4 times...armed robbery is not for the faint of heart. But, I escaped injury...if I had been armed, I might not have been that lucky.
nashville tn...what city?
glad you're still here!
My son-in-law says that Utah has gun license reciprocity with about 32 states. You can be a resident of those other states and qualify for a Utah gun license while living in your home state. The Utah fee is pretty low, like $50-100. Finally, and best of all, your Utah concealed carry permit is renewed on a three year cycle not a one year cycle (which is most common).Damn wavels, you are so right. BTW that is one good looking avatar. I love the feel of power a gun gives you when you are strapped, you feel invinceable. That is why I never actually strap on a gun, even though I am liscenced to do so, the consequences may exceed the benefit. I do carry a gun in my truck upon occasion, like if I'm going cross country, vacations and such. Keep it in a locked briefcase and take it in the hotel rooms with me, better safe than sorry, I've watched all those movies, "The hills have eyes", etc.~LOL~. Utah and Arizona have liscence comp. laws, IE they allow you to carry if you have a NV liscence, Ca. is a big No-No. When I go to Ca. I'm definently breaking the law. Therefore I don't go to Ca very much, and to tell the truth, I don't miss it at all. I spent 25 years of my life in that hell hole. Guns are good, people are bad, well maybe? The thing about a gun is it takes the personal touch out of killing someone, whereas a knife is much more personal. you can just shoot someone and walk away, no blood on you, no feeling the knife going in, feeling the person jerk from the trauma, etc. It makes killing a whole lot easier, just bang bang your dead.