2aguy
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This doesn't even do that.Very trueDude, no law will ever prevent criminals from getting guns. That result simply can't be legislated.2. Universal background checks
Overwhelmingly supported by most Americans. Why don’t we want to keep gun sales away from criminals?
But no law prevents people from murdering or raping either. While we can’t stop all access to guns for criminals, doesn’t mean we should not try to stop any
We already know what works and the funny thing is Richmond VA was one of the first to do it and had amazing success reducing both crime and murders.
Project Exile
Program Goals
Project Exile was a crime reduction strategy launched in 1997 in Virginia, by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, as a result of the spike in violent crime rates in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During these years, Richmond, Virginia consistently ranked among the top 10 U.S. cities in homicides per capita. Specifically, in 1994, Richmond was ranked 2nd for homicides per capita, with a homicide rate of 80 per 100,000 residents. Overall, the goal of the project was to deter felons from carrying firearms and decrease firearm-related homicides through both sentence enhancements for firearm-related offenses and incapacitating violent felons (Rosenfeld, Fornango, and Baumer 2005).
Study 1
Firearm Homicide Rates, Project Exile
Rosenfeld and colleagues (2005) found a statistically significant intervention effect for Project Exile. Firearm homicides in Richmond exhibited a 22 percent yearly decline, compared with the average reduction of about 10 percent per year for other large U.S. cities. The difference is statistically significant.
Yes...but the problem with actually going after the criminals is that the gun grabbers can't grab gun from law abiding gun owners....the thing they really want.
They know that when a criminal is arrested with a gun, they get that gun. What drives them out of their freaking minds is the normal gun owner, who never uses their guns for any crime. The gun grabbers can't grab those guns. So...they have to create red tape, new laws, new taxes and new regulations that create situations that put the legal gun owner in legal peril....so they willingly decide not to own guns in the first place, break the law by failing to dot the i's and t's of paperwork....so that now the gun grabbers can grab their legal guns........