National Carry AcademyHARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW REVEALS THAT BANNING GUNS INCREASES CRIME RATES
July 29, 2016
The famous Harvard Journal of Law recently published research entitled “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” written by Atty. Don B. Kates and Dr. Gary Mauser. A surprising conclusion revealed that there is a relationship between the ownership of guns and reduced crime rate in an area. Most people would expect Harvard to give a different view, but it seems like they cannot really deny the truth.
The results obtained in the study are all legit and the information was used by other experts from different countries. Why didn’t the media cover this before? Whatever the reasons are, it is an important thing for us to know about as part of reinforcing our Second Amendment rights.
There is a quote used in the study which is from Terry Roberts of North Coast Journal of California that says: “What we are seeing is ideology in collision with reality.” This quote simply represents what is happening recently in America. Even though the politicians are aware of the facts, they choose to ignore them and push for increased gun control. They are leading people to believe that guns are the cause of violence.
Read the following facts below. They all came from this article and are very useful for you as a citizen of this country:
- There is a misconception that the United States has the highest murder rate in the world. Actually, back in the Cold War when Russia had murder rates that were four times higher than the US. A campaign was then made to make the people believe otherwise, and they were successful in informing the people that there is a high rate of street violence in US. Through the years, Russia made revisions to their laws to prohibit firearms in specific situations, but the crime rate remained higher than the US. In the study, Mauser and Kates said that, “Homicide results suggest that where guns are scarce, other weapons are substituted in killings.”
- The United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the United Nations Economic and Social Council studied the firearms regulation and came to a surprising discovery: “Norway, Finland, Germany, France and Denmark, which have high rates of gun ownership, have low murder rates. On the other hand, in Luxembourg, where handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal, the murder rate is nine times higher than Germany.”
- When England and the United States were compared in Kates and Mauser’s study, they discovered that there is “’a negative correlation,’ that is, ‘where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are highest.’ There is no consistent significant positive association between gun ownership levels and violence rates.”
- “In 2004, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences released an evaluation from its review of existing research. After reviewing 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications and its own original empirical research, it failed to identify any gun control that had reduced violent crime, suicide, or gun accidents,” according to Kates and Mauser.
- Kates and Mauser noted that, “Somehow, it goes unreported that “despite constant and substantially increasing gun ownership, the United States saw progressive and dramatic reductions in criminal violence. On the other hand, the same time period in the United Kingdom saw a constant and dramatic increase in violent crime to which England’s response was ever-more drastic gun control. Nevertheless, criminal violence rampantly increased so that by 2000 England surpassed the United States to become one of the developed world’s most violence-ridden nations.” But then, despite such facts, a law in California was passed and it used $24 million to quicken the process of 40,000 firearms that were bought legally. “”We are fortunate in California to have the first and only system in the nation that tracks and identifies individuals who at one time made legal purchases of firearms but are now barred from possessing them,” said Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco).”
- The three worst school shootings happened in Western Europe; Erfurt (Germany), Dunblane (Scotland) and Winnenden (Germany). The fourth one was Columbine.
- “A study by the Media Research Center concluded media coverage of firearms is overwhelmingly biased. In a recent period, “television networks collectively aired 514 anti-gun stories, to a mere 46 that were pro-firearm, a ratio of more than 11-to-1 against firearms.””
- “Almost every mass shooting that has occurred in the United States since 1950 has taken place in a state with strict gun control laws. With just one exception, every public mass shooting in the USA since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are banned from carrying guns. The United States is Number 1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people. Overall, guns in the United States are used 80 times more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives.”
- “Down in Australia, gun murders increased by about 19 percent and armed robberies increased by about 69 percent after a gun ban was instituted. The city of Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States. So has this reduced crime? The murder rate in Chicago was about 17 percent higher in 2012 than it was in 2011, and Chicago is now considered to be ‘the deadliest global city,’. After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring every home to have a gun, the crime rate dropped by more than 50 percent over the course of the next 23 years and there was an 89 percent decline in burglaries.”
- “Despite the very strict ban on guns in the UK, the overall rate of violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than it is in the United States. In one recent year, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK. In the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year. The UK has approximately 125 percent more rape victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does. The UK has approximately 133 percent more assault victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does. UK has the fourth highest burglary rate in the EU. The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.”
HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW REVEALS THAT BANNING GUNS INCREASES CRIME RATES
July 29, 2016
The famous Harvard Journal of Law recently published research entitled “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” written by Atty. Don B. Kates and Dr. Gary Mauser. A surprising conclusion revealed that there is a relationship between the ownership of guns and reduced crime rate in an area. Most people would expect Harvard to give a different view, but it seems like they cannot really deny the truth.
The results obtained in the study are all legit and the information was used by other experts from different countries. Why didn’t the media cover this before? Whatever the reasons are, it is an important thing for us to know about as part of reinforcing our Second Amendment rights.
There is a quote used in the study which is from Terry Roberts of North Coast Journal of California that says: “What we are seeing is ideology in collision with reality.” This quote simply represents what is happening recently in America. Even though the politicians are aware of the facts, they choose to ignore them and push for increased gun control. They are leading people to believe that guns are the cause of violence.
Read the following facts below. They all came from this article and are very useful for you as a citizen of this country:
- There is a misconception that the United States has the highest murder rate in the world. Actually, back in the Cold War when Russia had murder rates that were four times higher than the US. A campaign was then made to make the people believe otherwise, and they were successful in informing the people that there is a high rate of street violence in US. Through the years, Russia made revisions to their laws to prohibit firearms in specific situations, but the crime rate remained higher than the US. In the study, Mauser and Kates said that, “Homicide results suggest that where guns are scarce, other weapons are substituted in killings.”
- The United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the United Nations Economic and Social Council studied the firearms regulation and came to a surprising discovery: “Norway, Finland, Germany, France and Denmark, which have high rates of gun ownership, have low murder rates. On the other hand, in Luxembourg, where handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal, the murder rate is nine times higher than Germany.”
- When England and the United States were compared in Kates and Mauser’s study, they discovered that there is “’a negative correlation,’ that is, ‘where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are highest.’ There is no consistent significant positive association between gun ownership levels and violence rates.”
- “In 2004, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences released an evaluation from its review of existing research. After reviewing 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications and its own original empirical research, it failed to identify any gun control that had reduced violent crime, suicide, or gun accidents,” according to Kates and Mauser.
- Kates and Mauser noted that, “Somehow, it goes unreported that “despite constant and substantially increasing gun ownership, the United States saw progressive and dramatic reductions in criminal violence. On the other hand, the same time period in the United Kingdom saw a constant and dramatic increase in violent crime to which England’s response was ever-more drastic gun control. Nevertheless, criminal violence rampantly increased so that by 2000 England surpassed the United States to become one of the developed world’s most violence-ridden nations.” But then, despite such facts, a law in California was passed and it used $24 million to quicken the process of 40,000 firearms that were bought legally. “”We are fortunate in California to have the first and only system in the nation that tracks and identifies individuals who at one time made legal purchases of firearms but are now barred from possessing them,” said Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco).”
- The three worst school shootings happened in Western Europe; Erfurt (Germany), Dunblane (Scotland) and Winnenden (Germany). The fourth one was Columbine.
- “A study by the Media Research Center concluded media coverage of firearms is overwhelmingly biased. In a recent period, “television networks collectively aired 514 anti-gun stories, to a mere 46 that were pro-firearm, a ratio of more than 11-to-1 against firearms.””
- “Almost every mass shooting that has occurred in the United States since 1950 has taken place in a state with strict gun control laws. With just one exception, every public mass shooting in the USA since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are banned from carrying guns. The United States is Number 1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people. Overall, guns in the United States are used 80 times more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives.”
- “Down in Australia, gun murders increased by about 19 percent and armed robberies increased by about 69 percent after a gun ban was instituted. The city of Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States. So has this reduced crime? The murder rate in Chicago was about 17 percent higher in 2012 than it was in 2011, and Chicago is now considered to be ‘the deadliest global city,’. After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring every home to have a gun, the crime rate dropped by more than 50 percent over the course of the next 23 years and there was an 89 percent decline in burglaries.”
- “Despite the very strict ban on guns in the UK, the overall rate of violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than it is in the United States. In one recent year, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK. In the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year. The UK has approximately 125 percent more rape victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does. The UK has approximately 133 percent more assault victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does. UK has the fourth highest burglary rate in the EU. The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.”