Shortly after the Aurora Colorado movie theatre shooting rampage, Blogger Davi Barker posted an article on the Daily Anarchist titled “Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics”. At the time his limited research uncovered the fact that indiscriminate rampage shooters stopped by law enforcement tallied far more murders than those stopped by citizens [ref]. Why? It usually takes a while for law enforcement to arrive on the scene. By the time they do, a lot of damage is already done.
Category: Commentary
Saved by the Gun
“A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing for safety Friday”, reported Atlanta Georgia’s WSB-TV Action News on January 4, 2013 [ref].
What were the criminal’s motives? He found the woman and her children in an attic crawlspace. Not the most likely place to find valuables to pilfer. I believe he was searching the house for its inhabitants.
What if the woman didn’t have a gun?
A Long Term Downward Trend
Don’t let alarmists mislead you into believing that there is a murder crisis in the U.S. that must be remedied by gun control. Contrary to popular belief, homicides in the U.S. have declined dramatically over the last few centuries.
Guns and Homicides Don’t Correlate
High rates of gun ownership do not correlate with higher rates of homicide by firearm.
Continue reading “Guns and Homicides Don’t Correlate”
Continue reading “Guns and Homicides Don’t Correlate”
The UK’s Gun Ban Works, Doesn’t It?
Gun laws in the United Kingdom have gradually over the years become more and more restrictive, to the point where today the laws and licensing requirements effectively ban private gun ownership [ref].
Yet homicide rates in the UK have been rising. Mark Easton of the BBC wrote:
More Gun Control, More Murders
Washington D.C. has one of the highest murder rates in the U.S. It also has perhaps the strictest gun control laws [ref, ref]. In 1976 D.C. passed a law that essentially prohibited residents from carrying firearms, and required privately owned firearms to be kept unloaded and inoperable. In 2008 the U.S. Supreme court struck down the law as constitutional. During D.C.’s unconstitutional gun ban its murder rate was 73% higher than prior to the law’s enactment [ref].
Police Lieutenant Lowell Duckett, President of the Black Police Caucus, and Special Assistant to the Washington D.C. Police Chief had this say about gun control in Washington D.C.:
No Such Thing as Gun Violence
Several months ago during a Sunday School class I attended the instructor went on a tangent about gun control. I held my tongue as she preached against guns and decried “gun violence”. I wanted to jump out of my seat and shout, “there is no such thing as gun violence!”
The Fundamental Right to Work
I find it preposterous that there is even the slightest debate about the Right to Work legislation that just passed in Michigan [ref].
Actually, I find it incomprehensible that Right to Work laws should even have to exist.
The IRS and Obama’s Enemies List
LiLo Should have Laid Low
Lindsay Lohan is not someone I’m very fond of. She’s an immoral publicity hound, who will do almost anything to be in the news. So I didn’t pay much attention when she came out in support of Mitt Romney’s presidential bid. [ref]
Lindsay Lohan is not someone I’m very fond of. She’s an immoral publicity hound, who will do almost anything to be in the news. So I didn’t pay much attention when she came out in support of Mitt Romney’s presidential bid. [ref]
Harry the Hypocrite
The Associated Press reported on Nov. 30 that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NEV) is threatening to “take the unusual step of using a simple majority vote to limit filibusters.” [ref]
A filibuster is a tactic historically used by members of a minority party — Democrat or Republican — to prevent bipartisan legislation from being rammed through the Senate by the majority party. A filibuster can only be stopped by a 60 vote majority, a tally that typically requires partisan support to achieve.
The really sad thing about Harry Reid’s threat is that it utterly exposes Harry Reid for what he is: a hypocrite. The proof is in Reid’s own prior opposition to limiting filibusters.