18 Little-Known Gun Facts That Prove That Guns Make Us Safer

[longknife]

By Michael Snyder, on August 11th, 2013

The American people deserve to know the truth about gun control.* Passing strict gun control laws will not make us all safer.* In fact, as you will read about below, even a study conducted at Harvard found that the more guns a nation has the less crime it tends to have.* In other words, there is a very strong positive correlation between more guns and less crime.* This is the exact opposite of what the mainstream media would have us believe, but it makes sense.* You see, the reality is that criminals really, really, really don’t want to get shot.* When you pass strict gun control laws, you take the fear of getting shot away and criminals tend to flourish. …

More of this disturbing-to-Libtards article @ 18 Little-Known Gun Facts That Prove That Guns Make Us Safer

Here are the first three [with links thank you ]”

#1 Over the past 20 years, gun sales have absolutely exploded, but homicides with firearms are down 39 percent during that time and “other crimes with firearms” are down 69 percent.

#2 A study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy discovered that nations that have more guns tend to have less crime.

#3 The nine European nations with the lowest rate of gun ownership rate have a combined murder rate that is three times greater than the nine European nation with the highest rate of gun ownership.

Now, try refuting them!

 

[PaulS1950]

The CDC report on gun violence that was ordered by Obama showed that between 1.5 and 3 million times each year people used their own guns to prevent or stop crime - most often without firing a shot.
That is between 4110 and 8419 crimes aborted each and every day in the US because law abiding citizens are armed and able to protect themselves.

If I wanted to really injure people I would want to ban guns too!
Just think by restricting guns and ammo you could make up to 3 million more victims each year.

 

[candycorn]

US Homicides in 2007: 14,831

http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_01.html
Homicides in England in 2007: 921

 

[martybegan]

US Homicides in 2007: 14,831

Expanded Homicide Data Table 1 - Crime in the United States 2007
Homicides in England in 2007: 921

First multiply the 921 by 5 to even out the popultation difference:

You then get: 4,605. Still 3.2 times less than the US, but still not the 16.1 times difference you are tying to imply.

When you have to fudge numbers right off the bat to make a point, it makes you look silly.

 

[candycorn]

US Homicides in 2007: 14,831

Expanded Homicide Data Table 1 - Crime in the United States 2007
Homicides in England in 2007: 921

First multiply the 921 by 5 to even out the popultation difference:

You then get: 4,605. Still 3.2 times less than the US, but still not the 16.1 times difference you are tying to imply.

When you have to fudge numbers right off the bat to make a point, it makes you look silly.

Thanks for the correction. We have over 10,000 more murders than England on a per capita basis then, right?

 

[Old Rocks]

What nation leads all other western nations in gun ownership? What nation leads all other western nations in gun homocides and deaths? And what other civilized nation allows crazies access to weapons of war?

You people and the NRA are selling a load of crap. The proliferation of guns has not made us safer, it has taken the safety of all too many people.

 

[martybegan]

US Homicides in 2007: 14,831

Expanded Homicide Data Table 1 - Crime in the United States 2007
Homicides in England in 2007: 921

First multiply the 921 by 5 to even out the popultation difference:

You then get: 4,605. Still 3.2 times less than the US, but still not the 16.1 times difference you are tying to imply.

When you have to fudge numbers right off the bat to make a point, it makes you look silly.

Thanks for the correction. We have over 10,000 more murders than England on a per capita basis then, right?

We had 13,000 more HOMICIDES than the UK, not murders as some may be justified.

and its not per capita, for per capita the rate is 1.51 x 10^-5 murders per person in the UK and 4.77x10^-5 murders per person in the US, again confirming the 3x number.

 

[martybegan]

What nation leads all other western nations in gun ownership? What nation leads all other western nations in gun homocides and deaths? And what other civilized nation allows crazies access to weapons of war?

You people and the NRA are selling a load of crap. The proliferation of guns has not made us safer, it has taken the safety of all too many people.

The progressive concept of banning normal people from owning guns will somehow prevent criminals from using them is the real load of crap.

 

[Clementine]

The reason to ban guns is to control the populace and it helps with population control. If you want fewer people and more power over them, you would want to ban guns.

Knives remain the weapon of choice. Yes, I know you can't walk into a crowded theater with a knife and kill a large number of people, but if a criminal fears that at least one person in the theater has a gun, he will not even attempt mass murder. The reason the Colorado theater shooter chose that specific location was because it was the only one with a sign banning guns.

We really need to stop notifying criminals of the "safe' places for them.

Liberals will forever run screaming to the mountain tops whenever a legal gun owner shoots someone. They rush to stick their heads in the sand when criminals are killing people by the hundreds in bad neighborhoods.

Thankfully, the mass shootings are rare and the number of people killed by mass murderers in the last 20 or 30 years is less than the number killed in big cities each year. Yes, numbers like this matter.

Children getting slaughtered in that school was horrible, but making stricter gun laws won't help and it's crazy to claim it will. I think the fact that schools are known gun free zones is a big reason why they were targeted. Criminals and crazies don't want challenges. Of course they prefer unarmed people or gun free zones.

Our liberal leaders surround themselves with people with guns. Clearly, it's safer. Average people are more likely to become victims than politicians.

I also get so sick of seeing people who kill intruders in their own homes in the middle of the night viewed as worse than the perp that broke in. Fuck 'em. I think anyone who breaks into our homes deserves to be shot. They usually come armed and a baseball bat isn't enough stopping power.

Yes, many of us appreciate our right to own guns. If liberals prefer to become statistics, then that is their right. Put your 'gun-free' signs up and feel good about not threatening any would-be killers. They'll appreciate it.

 

[candycorn]

First multiply the 921 by 5 to even out the popultation difference:

You then get: 4,605. Still 3.2 times less than the US, but still not the 16.1 times difference you are tying to imply.

When you have to fudge numbers right off the bat to make a point, it makes you look silly.

Thanks for the correction. We have over 10,000 more murders than England on a per capita basis then, right?

We had 13,000 more HOMICIDES than the UK, not murders as some may be justified.

You're on the ball today...we have 13,000 more HOMICIDES than the UK....Or basically the entire population of St. Augustine, FL or Astoria, OR, or Abeline, KS wiped out in an entire year. The "good" news is that there is always next year and we can wipe out another town.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Thanks for the correction. We have over 10,000 more murders than England on a per capita basis then, right?

We had 13,000 more HOMICIDES than the UK, not murders as some may be justified.

You're on the ball today...we have 13,000 more HOMICIDES than the UK....Or basically the entire population of St. Augustine, FL or Astoria, OR, or Abeline, KS wiped out in an entire year. The "good" news is that there is always next year and we can wipe out another town.

The public misconception is that the UK is a safe country and the US violent, but the truth is just the opposite. Depending on which numbers you choose, the violent crime rate in the UK is five times higher than the rate in the US.

UK numbers do not include crimes against anyone under the age of 16.

This ignoring of inconvenient facts is not surprising, given that a 2002 study found that as many as 11 million crimes (some serious) were omitted from the British government's official figures.

Source:

 

[candycorn]

We had 13,000 more HOMICIDES than the UK, not murders as some may be justified.

You're on the ball today...we have 13,000 more HOMICIDES than the UK....Or basically the entire population of St. Augustine, FL or Astoria, OR, or Abeline, KS wiped out in an entire year. The "good" news is that there is always next year and we can wipe out another town.

The public misconception is that the UK is a safe country and the US violent, but the truth is just the opposite. Depending on which numbers you choose, the violent crime rate in the UK is five times higher than the rate in the US.

UK numbers do not include crimes against anyone under the age of 16.

This ignoring of inconvenient facts is not surprising, given that a 2002 study found that as many as 11 million crimes (some serious) were omitted from the British government's official figures.

Source:

Do you deny that in 2007, we had 13,000 more homicides than the UK?

 

[gallantwarrior]

By Michael Snyder, on August 11th, 2013

The American people deserve to know the truth about gun control.* Passing strict gun control laws will not make us all safer.* In fact, as you will read about below, even a study conducted at Harvard found that the more guns a nation has the less crime it tends to have.* In other words, there is a very strong positive correlation between more guns and less crime.* This is the exact opposite of what the mainstream media would have us believe, but it makes sense.* You see, the reality is that criminals really, really, really don’t want to get shot.* When you pass strict gun control laws, you take the fear of getting shot away and criminals tend to flourish. …

More of this disturbing-to-Libtards article @ 18 Little-Known Gun Facts That Prove That Guns Make Us Safer

Here are the first three [with links thank you ]”

#1 Over the past 20 years, gun sales have absolutely exploded, but homicides with firearms are down 39 percent during that time and “other crimes with firearms” are down 69 percent.

#2 A study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy discovered that nations that have more guns tend to have less crime.

#3 The nine European nations with the lowest rate of gun ownership rate have a combined murder rate that is three times greater than the nine European nation with the highest rate of gun ownership.

Now, try refuting them!

Libruls don't need to refute facts, they just flat out deny them.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

You're on the ball today...we have 13,000 more HOMICIDES than the UK....Or basically the entire population of St. Augustine, FL or Astoria, OR, or Abeline, KS wiped out in an entire year. The "good" news is that there is always next year and we can wipe out another town.

The public misconception is that the UK is a safe country and the US violent, but the truth is just the opposite. Depending on which numbers you choose, the violent crime rate in the UK is five times higher than the rate in the US.

UK numbers do not include crimes against anyone under the age of 16.

This ignoring of inconvenient facts is not surprising, given that a 2002 study found that as many as 11 million crimes (some serious) were omitted from the British government's official figures.

Source:

Do you deny that in 2007, we had 13,000 more homicides than the UK?

Yes I do based on the fact that the UK doesn't report homicides unless there has been a conviction and they don't count multiple homicides if they're perpetrated by one individual.

In other words, their stats aren't accurate and therefore aren't comparable. It's apples and oranges.

 

[candycorn]

The public misconception is that the UK is a safe country and the US violent, but the truth is just the opposite. Depending on which numbers you choose, the violent crime rate in the UK is five times higher than the rate in the US.

UK numbers do not include crimes against anyone under the age of 16.

This ignoring of inconvenient facts is not surprising, given that a 2002 study found that as many as 11 million crimes (some serious) were omitted from the British government's official figures.

Source:

Do you deny that in 2007, we had 13,000 more homicides than the UK?

Yes I do based on the fact that the UK doesn't report homicides unless there has been a conviction and they don't count multiple homicides if they're perpetrated by one individual.

In other words, their stats aren't accurate and therefore aren't comparable. It's apples and oranges.

I get the data on UK homicides from a link supplied by the OP...hmmm Maybe all of the "we're not as violent as the UK" stuff in the link is garbage as well then... hmmm?

 

[candycorn]

Thanks for the correction. We have over 10,000 more murders than England on a per capita basis then, right?

We had 13,000 more HOMICIDES than the UK, not murders as some may be justified.

You're on the ball today...we have 13,000 more HOMICIDES than the UK....Or basically the entire population of St. Augustine, FL or Astoria, OR, or Abeline, KS wiped out in an entire year. The "good" news is that there is always next year and we can wipe out another town.

Sausalito, CA
Hanover, NH
Fairfield, IA
Los Alamos, NM

Other towns whose population is more or less equivalent to the difference between homicides in the US and the UK in 2007 where we had 13,000 more homicides than they did.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

US Homicides in 2007: 14,831

Expanded Homicide Data Table 1 - Crime in the United States 2007
Homicides in England in 2007: 921

First multiply the 921 by 5 to even out the popultation difference:

You then get: 4,605. Still 3.2 times less than the US, but still not the 16.1 times difference you are tying to imply.

When you have to fudge numbers right off the bat to make a point, it makes you look silly.

Firearms are banned in England so how did those 971 people get murdered?

 

[RDD_1210]

The public misconception is that the UK is a safe country and the US violent, but the truth is just the opposite. Depending on which numbers you choose, the violent crime rate in the UK is five times higher than the rate in the US.

UK numbers do not include crimes against anyone under the age of 16.

This ignoring of inconvenient facts is not surprising, given that a 2002 study found that as many as 11 million crimes (some serious) were omitted from the British government's official figures.

Source:

Do you deny that in 2007, we had 13,000 more homicides than the UK?

Yes I do based on the fact that the UK doesn't report homicides unless there has been a conviction and they don't count multiple homicides if they're perpetrated by one individual.

In other words, their stats aren't accurate and therefore aren't comparable. It's apples and oranges.

It's almost as if you made this up out of thin air......

...Oh wait, it's exactly like that.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Do you deny that in 2007, we had 13,000 more homicides than the UK?

Yes I do based on the fact that the UK doesn't report homicides unless there has been a conviction and they don't count multiple homicides if they're perpetrated by one individual.

In other words, their stats aren't accurate and therefore aren't comparable. It's apples and oranges.

It's almost as if you made this up out of thin air......

...Oh wait, it's exactly like that.

You can pretend it's made up or you can do as most liberals do and just ignore the facts altogether.

Either way, it makes you a loser.

 

[Missourian]

A word on cities being a HUGE underlying factor in firearm violence and firearm homicides.


From the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

In general, homicide gun deaths in the United States are more of an urban than a rural problem. "Half of all homicides occurred in 63 cities with 16% of the nation's population; within those cities, homicides were largely clustered in certain neighborhoods."[7]

For example, in Milwaukee, two inner-city zip codes, 53204 and 53215, have homicide rates of 89.1 per 100,000 and 38.8 per 100,000, respectively, compared with a homicide rate of 10.5 per 100,000 for the state in general.[16]​

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/405837