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11th July 2017, 09:28 AM | #41 |
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Hm .. amount of accidental shootings in US seem very high, but then when no training is required, it will be.
I see two quite different 'use of the gun' .. one is against general crime .. some wants to mug you, maybe rape you, but is not after your life as primary goal .. the second is terrorism .. some is after your life as primary goal. These two are way different, and people often mix them together. First one is way more common .. and just showing your gun will typically be sufficient to defend yourself. Not necessarily to lower the crime rate though, as the thug might just attack someone else 5 minutes later. The second one is very rare, and even chance somebody armed will be nearby is low. Even lower is the chance he will be willing to intervene. And then there are more and more popular cases where shooting just wont do you much good, like suing car to plow through crowd. I think nobody can expect much reduction in terrorism attacks with concealed carry. Even general crime might be impacted just a little. Still if I get mugged, or in the middle of mass shooting .. I will be damn sorry I don't have a gun. I wouldn't care about crime rate of a country .. I would care about surviving and defending my family, if nobody else. I wonder, besides general crime stats .. how much less often are gun owners victims of crime ? |
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Are you under some sort of impression that I'm in favour of CC? Should I obsessively read every post on the forum and call absolutely every single one on their inaccuracies lest you find me guilty of hypocrisy? Or are you just miffed that someone dared to call you on your "common sense" comment, something that usually doesn't fly here?
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11th July 2017, 10:40 AM | #46 |
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"The Stanford team found precisely the opposite: "Ten years after the adoption of RTC laws," they write, "violent crime is estimated to be 13-15 percent higher than it would have been without the RTC law."
So far I've run through the Vice article, went to the Trace (anti-gun violence advocate) website who worked with Vice on the article, but the closest I've got to the actual paper is this: http://www.nber.org/papers/w23510 I'm very interested to see how somebody came up with the percentages in the above quote. |
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That plus all the hypotheticals and the fact that the article was produced in partnership with The Trace, a Michael Bloomberg publication, tells me all I need to know. For those of you who don't know, Mr. Bloomberg is vehemently opposed to concealed carry. Except when it comes to his personal safety, that is. Then it's ok to surround himself with the concealed firearms carried by his private security team. 24/7. Yup. |
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You are aware that the NRA lobbied hard so that the CDC and other agencies were banned from collecting data on gun deaths.
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11th July 2017, 11:22 AM | #51 |
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I find that remarkable and sad at the same time. St Louis is a city with a population of about 315,000, similar to Christchurch here in NZ, (about 380,000.) Christchurch has a drug and gang problem too; more P-Labs very km2 than any other city in NZ, and gangs like Black Power, Bandidos, King Cobras, Mongrel Mob etc, the usual groups of scumbags and thugs that infest any medium sized city.
In 13 years of living in that city (1986 to 1998) I can recall perhaps a dozen incidences of gun violence, about one per year. Even when Christchurch was later known as the murder capital of New Zealand (it was nicknamed "Crimechurch") the rate of murders was still very low compared with other similar sized cities in the USA, . |
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Btw. I can't find percentage of gun owners per state .. most statistics show guns per capita .. which is something quite different, and IMHO not so relevant .. anyone knows ?
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Since we're Godwinning the thread anyway... The rise of Nazi Germany came about because the German police *didn't* have a monopoly on violence. Hitler's SA goons started out as thugs deployed by the party to disrupt rival political rallies and events. The Nazi party rose to power on the back of such political violence, outside of any legitimate police authority or government control.
Incidentally, this is why I find the political violence of the "antifa" crowd so depressingly ironic. Their use of violence to suppress and intimidate political speech they don't like is literally a fascist tactic. |
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To establish a database of firearms owners.
ATF would love to blame their record keeping deficiencies on the NRA. Unfortunately for ATF (more accurately at the time, the ATTU Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit) they have never been very good at record keeping and they really dropped the ball with the NFA registrations that were submitted during the 30 day amnesty in '68. Individuals registered their previously unregistered MG's etc w/o penalty and w/o the $200.00 transfer tax. Owners received their registration(s) and tax stamps and went their merry way. Years later, folks with papered guns were accused of being in possession of unregistered MG's or other NFA weapons or devices. If they had their paperwork in hand they were generally OK, but not always. This became a huge issue in the licensed NFA dealer community, because in compliance inspections ATF examiners were alleging that dealers were in possession of these unregistered weapons when they didn't just have official ATF registrations and tax stamps in hand, they had original or copies of the original 1968 registration paperwork. How'd this happen? It has since come to light that in at least two time periods, the 1968 amnesty and the run up to the May 19th, 1986 cut off date for registration of transferable MG's, ATF clerical employees destroyed existing NFA registration paperwork in an effort to cut down on their workload, below is the Office of Inspector General report from 1998: http://www.titleii.com/bardwell/IG_r...A_registry.txt The response from Eric Larson, who has spearheaded the investigation into deficiencies with the NFRTR: http://www.titleii.com/bardwell/IG_report_response2.txt Lo and behold, the Chief of the ATF NFA branch sticks both feet in his mouth, on video go to 1:17:
ATF is underfunded, but they were underfunded long before any question of 2nd Amendment rights were involved, and they've also been the victim of their own employees not taking proper care to perform their responsibilities, and that is no fault of the NRA either. Give them funding, give them all Apple computers, it's not going to change the institutional mentality there. |
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You are invited to take off your blinkers and read "the armed citizen" columns that are extracted from local news reports. Unlike the fear mongering of "oh, dear, another murderer" this collection of un screamed incidents (published monthly in the NRA's rag) points to three things that happen: armed citizen scares off cook; armed citizen gets control of situation until cops come; armed citizen shoots crook. (sometimes lethal, sometimes not). I've been getting that rag for about 10 years now. In paper form. There are between 12 and 15 of these reports, citing which city's news report it comes from, that paint a very different picture form the nonsense you spout. There are people out there preventing crime and in some cases helping the cops apprehend people who are out there screwing with their fellow citizens. Take off your blinders. To the people, it matters to have the choice not to be a victim. Having that choice matters. Some people don't prefer that option. Your confirmation bias is sad. GO read the last ten years of that column. That's 10 x 12 and 12 ~ 1400+ incidents that may inform you, if you can be bothered to take the effort. Skeptic? Not. Willfully ignorant. ====================================== (The rest of the monthly offering in the NRA rag is political noise, which I have no time for; occasionally interesting historical articles that relate a particular fire arm to a time in history, often to do with military campaigns or hunting; advertisements for a whole lot of stuff (mostly ignore); and the occasional "collectors corner" article where one can find out about well preserved firearms that are very old. There are also a variety benchmark tests for weapons and ammo that I no longer care about, as I've got all of the firearms I need at the moment. I've cut out enough reviews for 9mms such that if I do want to buy one last one, I know what to choose from. Odds are, I won't. |
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Full disclosure; I am a multiple firearm owner. More a collector really.
I do not hunt. I am not now, never have been and likely never will be a member of the NRA. Because I can read and have a better-than-average grasp of history I understand that the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution was designed to address a national (and now impractical and obsolete) military requirement, not a personal desire to hunt ducks. That said, nearly my entire collection are ex-military firearms,... just in case. My Lee Enfield's could come in handy if The Hun invades. I do not carry although I have thought about getting a permit to do so simply to save on paperwork and hassle given the way purchasing laws are in my state. I do not keep a firearm loaded and ready for action to defend my home or family - all are safely locked up at all times. I am a responsible gun owner. That said, in a truly free society any law abiding citizen that wants to own one or more firearms should be able to own one or more firearms. 'Eff off, I like guns,' is a perfectly valid reason to own a gun,... in a truly free society. People who don't like guns do not have the right to decide that those of us who do can't have them, just because they don't like guns,... in a truly free society. The NRA doesn't seem to get that. 20-odd years ago the NRA decided for political reasons that to justify the right to own guns they needed to push a right to self defense (using guns). In the process they created a whole new market for whole new types of firearms designed specifically for personal protection - which couldn't have upset the NRA's main contributors too much. The NRA party line that only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun is bollocks. Do good guys (or gals) with guns sometimes stop bad guys with guns? Yeah, but it isn't all that common. On the flip side statistically it is far more likely that gun will harm the owner or someone the owner knows/loves rather than a baddie. Not the best argument for personal protection. Of course if one is a responsible gun owner and keeps their firearms unloaded and locked up then they are far less likely to harm themselves or a loved one,... but that makes the firearm all but useless for self defense. That said, if someone is convinced that they need a firearm to protect themselves, their loved ones and/or property and they are a law abiding citizen they should be allowed to have a firearm for protection,... in a truly free society. Even if that increases risk of injury or death. Freedom isn't all moon beams and sparkly unicorns. Keeping in mind that the primary purchase of regulation is to get the legislator re-elected, restricting the ability of law abiding persons to purchase firearms is going to have eff-all effect on the rate of firearm violence and little on the incidence of accidental death or injury (I will concede it might have some impact on the rate of suicides but by how much is debatable. There are better ways to dramatically reduce gun violence than making it illegal for law abiding people to engage in something they enjoy. That's my $0.02 worth |
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By evaluating (and possibly extrapolating) existing data. For example, if 189 people drowned swimming in a local creek in a town with no swimming holes and 230 drowned after 14 swimming pools were built, one could make a make a reasonable extrapolation about the "alternate reality" of no swimming pools when in fact some pools did exist.
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I'm pretty sure you would agree that there is a world of difference between private security carrying in order to protect a person who gets death threats and some ordinary Joe carrying a concealed weapon.
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In this you have just substituted your own bias ("law abiding citizen") for the NRA's (just about anybody) or the anti-gun nuts (nobody). What makes your particular criterion better than anyone else's?
And does a jay walking ticket debar someone from being able to buy a gun? After all, she is not "law abiding". Yeah, I know that's a silly question but it raises the very important question about what "law abiding" really means. Also, what limits would you place on the definition of a "gun". Can a "law abiding" citizen care these: Again, it's a silly question but it raises the issue of what kind of gun any "law abiding" citizen should be able to own. |
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To computerize records they are legally required to maintain. Not a database of fire arms owners, but records of the sales that they are again, required to maintain.
The goal is to make the data useless. It seems your basic argument is that any collection of gun data is wrong and all guns need to be anonymous and untraceable. That does fit with the NRA's goals. All gun owners need to be able to quickly sell off their guns to criminals, it is a basic american right as is the right for that to have no legal consequences for you ever. |
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