"Always follow the source. The ACRU is a right wing think tank with lots of funding from extremely conservative groups. Interesting to see who is on the board:"
Sure. That's why any studies you find promoting gun control are predominately generated by the left. Anyway, here's a link to the actual study published by Harvard Law http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf Some good excerpts: Since at least 1965, the false assertion that the United States has the industrialized worldâs highest murder rate has been an artifact of politically motivated Soviet minimization designed to hide the true homicide rates. Since well before that date, the Soviet Union possessed extremely stringent gun controls that were effectuated by a police state apparatus providing stringent enforcement. So successful was that regime that few Russian civilians now have firearms and very few murders involve them. Yet, manifest success in keeping its people disarmed did not prevent the Soviet Union from having far and away the highest murder rate in the developed world.In the 1960s and early 1970s, the gunâless Soâ viet Unionâs murder rates paralleled or generally exceeded those of gunâridden America. While American rates stabilized and then steeply declined, however, Russian murder increased so drastiâ cally that by the early 1990s the Russian rate was three times higher than that of the United States. Between 1998â2004 (the latâ est figure available for Russia), Russian murder rates were nearly four times higher than American rates. Similar murder rates also characterize the Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and various other nowâindependent European nations of the former U.S.S.R. Thus, in the United States and the former Soviet Union transitionâ ing into currentâday Russia, âhomicide results suggest that wher guns are scarce other weapons are substituted in killings.â While American gun ownership is quite high, Table 1 shows many other developed nations (e.g., Norway, Finland, Germany, France, Denmark) with high rates of gun ownership. These countries, however, have murder rates as low or lower than many develâ oped nations in which gun ownership is much rarer. For example, Luxembourg, where handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal, The same pattern appears when comparisons of violence to gun ownership are made within nations. Indeed, âdata on fireâ arms ownership by constabulary area in England,â like data from the United States, show âa negative correlation,â that is, âwhere firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highâ est.â ... National Institute of Justice surveys among prison inmates find that large percentages report that their fear that a victim might be armed deterred them from confrontation crimes. â[T]he felons most frightened âabout confronting an armed victimâ were those from states with the greatest relative number of privately owned firearms.â Conversely, robbery is highest in states that most restrict gun ownership. ... Over a decade ago, Professor Brandon Centerwall of the Uniâ versity of Washington undertook an extensive, statistically sophisâ ticated study comparing areas in the United States and Canada to determine whether Canadaâs more restrictive policies had better contained criminal violence. When he published his results it was with the admonition: If you are surprised by [our] finding[s], so [are we]. [We] did not begin this research with any intent to âexonerateâ handâ guns, but there it isâa negative finding, to be sure, but a negaâ tive finding is nevertheless a positive contribution. It directs us where not to aim public health resources. ... This Article has reviewed a significant amount of evidence from a wide variety of international sources. Each individual portion of evidence is subject to cavilâat the very least the general objection that the persuasiveness of social scientific evidence cannot remotely approach the persuasiveness of conclusions in the physical sciences. Nevertheless, the burâ den of proof rests on the proponents of the more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death mantra, espeâ cially since they argue public policy ought to be based on that mantra. To bear that burden would at the very least require showing that a large number of nations with more guns have more death and that nations that have imposed stringent gun controls have achieved substantial reductions in criminal violence (or suicide). But those correlations are not observed when a large number of nations are compared across the world This link shows a simple google search with tons of results: https://www.google.com/search?ix=sea&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=gun+control+crime+rates J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:347480 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
