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"The important pair of observations are that gun availability does not correlate with homicides or violent crime, but select cultural attitudes and realities do."
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Culture, Homicides and Violence | Gun Facts
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I spent my youth as a Minnesota Deer Hunter. I spent 15 months in Viet Nam carrying an M14 with Bi-pod and selector switch and then an M16.
I rarely used the Auto because it wastes ammo and with M60 Operators the "Life Span" of an Automatic Weapon in Combat is about 60 SECONDS!! You enemy wants you taken out quickly.
There is NO REASON for anyone to NEED a Weapon that fires 30 rounds in 60 seconds on the Streets nor in the Schools of America. Real Hunters would never use such a weapon in the field because they are hunting for FOOD and that many rounds will destroy all the eatable meat!
How many REAL Hunters have left the NRA because of the belief that it is better to kill innocent children than hunt for food?
Statistics are not in play hear, LIVES ARE!!!
I rarely used the Auto because it wastes ammo and with M60 Operators the "Life Span" of an Automatic Weapon in Combat is about 60 SECONDS!! You enemy wants you taken out quickly.
There is NO REASON for anyone to NEED a Weapon that fires 30 rounds in 60 seconds on the Streets nor in the Schools of America. Real Hunters would never use such a weapon in the field because they are hunting for FOOD and that many rounds will destroy all the eatable meat!
How many REAL Hunters have left the NRA because of the belief that it is better to kill innocent children than hunt for food?
Statistics are not in play hear, LIVES ARE!!!
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"gun availability does not correlate with homicides or violent crime" = opinion, not supported by facts.
I'm sure culture also plays a role, but that article is factually inaccurate to say that gun ownership and homicide or violent crime are not correlated. Many studies have proven that link does exist. Here is one clear example.
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301409
I'm sure culture also plays a role, but that article is factually inaccurate to say that gun ownership and homicide or violent crime are not correlated. Many studies have proven that link does exist. Here is one clear example.
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301409
The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981–2010...
Objectives. We examined the relationship between levels of household firearm ownership, as measured directly and by a proxy—the percentage of suicides committed with a firearm—and age-adjusted firearm homicide rates at the state level. Methods. We conducted a negative binomial regression analysis of panel data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting Systems database on gun ownership...
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LTC Kevin B.
SFC Casey O'Mally - "We observed a robust correlation between higher levels of gun ownership and higher firearm homicide rates." That's in plain English.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
LTC Kevin B. Yes. Higher guns equals higher GUN violence. Not higher OVERALL violence.
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LTC Kevin B.
SFC Casey O'Mally - Try to wordsmith your way around it however you want, but the relationship is there.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S [login to see] 00442
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11130511/
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.92.12.1988
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17070975/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S [login to see] 00442
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11130511/
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.92.12.1988
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17070975/
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SFC Casey O'Mally
LTC Kevin B. The first and fourth of these actually appear to support your assertion. Those actually look at OVERALL homicides, not just gun homicides as your original post did. They only offer the abstract, I would like to see the actual data. But the abstract appears to support your argument.
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