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Did You Know That…
• Americans use guns in self-defense up to 3.6 million times each year?
• In 98 percent of those cases, the criminal flees at the mere sight of the
gun?
• The criminal succeeds in taking the gun from his intended victim in only
one percent of those cases?
• Studies have shown that the more guns honest citizens own, the lower the
crime rate – with violent crime dropping about 4 percent for each 1 percent
rise in gun ownership?
• The most dramatic reductions in crime have occurred in states passing laws
that allow honest citizens to carry concealed weapons?
• You are far more likely to get mugged, raped, burglarized or shot in
America’s big cities today – where gun laws are strict – than on the old
western frontier, where virtually everyone carried a gun?
• During the frontier era, the combined murder rate in Dodge City, Abilene,
Ellsworth, Wichita, and Caldwell – all wide-open cattle towns – was less
than two murders per year for all five towns combined?
• Violent crime today is concentrated overwhelmingly among inner-city
minorities – with African-Americans committing murder at 8 times the rate of
whites?
• The rate of gun murders among white U.S. teenagers is roughly the same as
among teenagers in Canada?
• The most heavily armed nation in the world, per capita, is Switzerland?
• Switzerland also has one of the lowest crime rates in the world?
• England and Australia both experienced dramatic increases in violent crime
after confiscating guns from honest citizens?
• Australia and England were ranked the first and second worst countries in
the industrialized world – in that order – in terms of violent crime,
according to the February 2001 International Crime Victims Survey, released
by Leiden University in Holland?
• The United States did not even make the top 10 list of Leiden University’s
International Crime Victims Survey?
Of course you didn’t know these things. How could you?
A recent study by the Media Research Center shows that television news
stories calling for stricter gun laws outnumber those opposing such laws by a
ratio of ten to one. When it comes to guns and gun laws, we are hearing only
one side of the story.
To hear the other side, read The Seven Myths of Gun Control by Richard Poe.
Richard Poe is editor of David Horowitz’s Web site FrontPageMagazine.com and
SlapHillary.com.
Copyright © 2001 FrontPageMagazine.com
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