Posted on Jul 12, 2015
Recent study finds that more guns does not lead to less crime. What are your thoughts on the issue?
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A high-profile shooting, like the June 17 crime that left dead nine members of a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, is typically followed by calls for greater gun control, along with counter arguments that the best way to stop gun crimes is with more guns.
"The one thing that would have at least ameliorated the horrible situation in Charleston would have been that if somebody in that prayer meeting had a conceal carry or there had been either an off-duty policeman or an on-duty policeman, somebody with the legal authority to carry a firearm and could have stopped the shooter," presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said in a Fox News interview on June 19.
A new study, however, throws cold water on the idea that a well-armed populace deters criminals or prevents murders. Instead, higher ownership of guns in a state is linked to more firearm robberies, more firearm assaults and more homicide in general.
"We found no support for the hypothesis that owning more guns leads to a drop or a reduction in violent crime," said study researcher Michael Monuteaux, an epidemiologist and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. "Instead, we found the opposite."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/guns-dont-deter-crime-study-finds/ar-AAcDdis
"The one thing that would have at least ameliorated the horrible situation in Charleston would have been that if somebody in that prayer meeting had a conceal carry or there had been either an off-duty policeman or an on-duty policeman, somebody with the legal authority to carry a firearm and could have stopped the shooter," presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said in a Fox News interview on June 19.
A new study, however, throws cold water on the idea that a well-armed populace deters criminals or prevents murders. Instead, higher ownership of guns in a state is linked to more firearm robberies, more firearm assaults and more homicide in general.
"We found no support for the hypothesis that owning more guns leads to a drop or a reduction in violent crime," said study researcher Michael Monuteaux, an epidemiologist and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. "Instead, we found the opposite."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/guns-dont-deter-crime-study-finds/ar-AAcDdis
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Some churches request those with CC licenses to self identify and bring their weapons to church services for protection of the congregation.
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More guns do not mean less crime. But it can lessen the amount of casualties. If a shooter enters intending to shoot as many people as he can but is stopped right away by a person carrying then they won't be able to call it a mass shooting. Many are saved. Protect yourself, your family and others around you. Many of the mass shootings could have ended much sooner.
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Harvard, all these other colleges. Hamas supporters so of course we can’t trust them and we can’t trust this study.
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SPC Kent Laughlin
but if the hamazz terrorists go nuts on campus wonder if the top pig would call the cops... I mean they would show up with guns... bet the folks in the administration offices would be apoplectic if a swat team showed up ..
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So? Does this change the 2nd Amendment or the clause "shall not be infringed."? Regardless I would like to see how they determined this. As is often quoted. “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
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It is not the number of guns, it is the individual that commits the crime, if not with a gun they just use another weapon, maybe a knife, maybe a vehicle, maybe a bomb, maybe fire.
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This study shows 2 things:
1) There is insufficient data to show conclusive results since too few citizens in America are allowed to carry a concealed weapon in public legally without a permit.
2) There is a dearth of those who can carry a weapon who actually do carry a weapon in public.
1) There is insufficient data to show conclusive results since too few citizens in America are allowed to carry a concealed weapon in public legally without a permit.
2) There is a dearth of those who can carry a weapon who actually do carry a weapon in public.
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Every sane person knows this is NOT true and just another BS study by left wing, progressive, America hating Harvard. The biggest hate filled, antisemite school in the US for sure.
Good guys with guns are always a good thing when bad guys have guns.
Good guys with guns are always a good thing when bad guys have guns.
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It just makes sense that as more of any product is produced that more of other measures will follow suit. But as that is the case with the subject product, it also is sensible for the good citizens, in light of the increased desperation of many, to be armed in anticipation of more desperate acts. Fortunately the pro-abortion retaliation expected after Roe was overturned didn't occur, but what of the Israel-Hamas war's effect? As for me and my church, we will anticipate and be ready if evil comes knocking.
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I for one have NEVER said that MORE GUNS equals less crime. What I have always believed is that MORE GUNS in the hands of Law abiding citizens who use those guns for good equals less crime. That is the trap though. Saying the phrase, "more guns is less crime" is vague and inaccurate. Because more guns in the hands of criminals and thugs in no way decreases crime. Yet that is exactly what the anti-gun crowd see as gun control. Let's remove ALL guns but there is no way to remove the guns from criminals. Why? Because they do to live by the laws the rest of us live by. They have no respect for human life and decency so why in hell would they EVER live by the laws created by man in order to have a civilized society.
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No guns means no shootings, ergo, fewer guns means fewer shootings.
Unfortunately we live in a society with more guns than people.
Personally, the only time I even touched a real gun was in the Navy.
Cap pistols don't count, right.
Unfortunately we live in a society with more guns than people.
Personally, the only time I even touched a real gun was in the Navy.
Cap pistols don't count, right.
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