yes...because Fox news is a such a real news source. How shocking, the Guns and God propaganda network having something positive to say about more guns...
Several of the studies posted earlier stated just the opposite. States that have tighter gun control laws have lower gun related homicide rates Actually gun homicide rates in Chicago have increased since those laws were struck down... On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Compare that to the typical American attitude: The more guns you have, the > less gun violence you'll have." > > Actually, there are studies and statistics that show this. > > http://theacru.org/acru/harvard_study_gun_control_is_counterproductive/ > > The findings of two criminologists - Prof. Don Kates and Prof. Gary Mauser > - in their exhaustive study of American and European gun laws and violence > rates, are telling: > > Nations with stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher > murder rates than those that do not. The study found that the nine European > nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per > 100,000 population) have a combined murder rate three times higher than > that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least > 15,000 guns per 100,000 population). > > > > > http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/30/media-silence-is-deafening-about-important-gun-news/ > > Murder and violent crime rates were supposed to soar after the Supreme > Court struck down gun controllaws in Chicago and Washington, D.C. > > Politicians predicted disaster. "More handguns in the District of Columbia > will only lead to more handgun violence," Washingtons Mayor Adrian > Fenty warned the day the court made its decision. > > Chicagos Mayor Daley predicted that we would "go back to the Old West, you > have a gun and I have a gun and we'll settle it in the streets . . . ." > > The New York Times even editorialized this month about the Supreme Court's > "unwise" decision that there is a right for people "to keep guns in the > home." > > But Armageddon never happened. Newly released data for Chicago shows that, > as in Washington, murder and gun crime rates didn't rise after the bans > were eliminated -- they plummeted. They have fallen much more than the > national crime rate. > > > > "We should ask a kindergartener which attitude makes more sense." > > Ask them if getting a flu shot when they are not sick makes any sense or if > they understand that it actually does hurt their parents more when a parent > has to spank them? > > J > > - > > Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look > upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. - Mohandas > Gandhi > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347468 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
