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.
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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.
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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!”
Syria under snow: Damascus blanketed as severe Mideast weather continues
Reported By www.youtube.com on 2013-01-09
“Syrian capital Damascus has suffered heavy snowfall which blanketed the city and, at times, reduced visibility for drivers. The weather is part of a brutal winter weather system that is causing havoc across the Middle East.”
Woman hiding with kids shoots intruder
Reported By www.wsbtv.com on 2013-01-04
“A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety….”
An animated analysis of the IPCC AR5 graph shows IPCC analysis methodology and computer models are seriously flawed
Reported By wattsupwiththat.com on 2012-12-19
“This one chart is all we need to prove, without a doubt, that IPCC analysis methodology and computer models are seriously flawed. They have way over-estimated the extent of Global Warming since the IPCC first started issuing Assessment Reports in 1990, and continuing through the fourth report issued in 2007. When actual observations over a period of up to 22 years substantially contradict predictions based on a given climate theory, that theory must be greatly modified or completely discarded…. The IPCC has issued four reports, so, given 90% certainty for each report, there should be only one chance in 10,000 (ten times ten times ten times ten) that they got it wrong four times in a row. But they did!”