posted October 06, 2011 08:38 AM            

John Lott has noticed a corrollary to his thesis More Guns, Less Crime: more guns, fewer murders.

According to Lott in his article published at Fox News, after Chicago's and Washington DC's strict control gun laws were stuck down

Newly released data for Chicago shows that, as in Washington, murder and gun crime rates didn't rise after the bans were eliminated --they plummeted. They have fallen much more than the national crime rate. (snip) In the first six months of this year, there were 14% fewer murders in Chicago compared to the first six months of last year - back when owning handguns was illegal. It was the largest drop in Chicago's murder rate since the handgun ban went into effect in 1982.

By comparison, there was a 6% drop in murders in the four of the nation's other most populous cities.

In addition to the decrease in murders committed with guns crimes committed with guns fell more than non-gun crimes.

Robberies with guns fell by 25%, while robberies without guns have fallen by eight percent. Assaults with guns fell by 37%, while assaults without guns fell by 12%.

And why is these seemingly contrary statistics?

Just as with right-to-carry laws, when law-abiding citizens have guns some criminals stop carrying theirs.

Alas, this drop in crime hasn't benefited everyone.

The benefit could have been even greater. Getting a handgun permit in Chicago and Washington is an expensive and difficult process, meaning only the relatively wealthy go through it. (snip) The regulations that still exist in Chicago and Washington primarily disarm the most likely victims of crime.

Hopefully, even the poor in these areas will soon also have more of an opportunity to defend themselves, too.

Yep, those occupy (actually criminally illegally trespass) Wall Street spoiled, middle class, mostly white crybabies have it right for once--thanks to government intervention, laws protecting citizens from crimes are better for the wealthy while harder than the poor.

Lott admits

Lower crime rates in Chicago and Washington, by themselves, don't prove that gun control increases murders, even when combined with the quite familiar story of how their murder rates soared and stayed high after the gun bans were imposed.

But these aren't isolated examples. Around the world, whenever guns are banned, murder rates rise.

Lott points out liberal media hypocrisy.

One can only imagine the coverage if crime rates had risen.

Not surprisingly, the national media have been completely silent about this news.

posted October 06, 2011 01:30 PM            

i don't know the gun laws of most of these countries! but i do know that the UK, where gun laws are strict, has a lot less murders than the US, where they tend not to be.

and that many of the countries, like jamaica, where guns are restricted, get theirs from countries like ours where they are not...and most of those illegal guns are responsible for the VERY high murder rate in jamaica. now if they were allowed with registration, while some citizens might be armed and able to defend themselves from the gangs, MOST would not. why? because they can't afford the guns!

posted October 07, 2011 09:39 AM            

In cities where guns are outlawed, both murder and other violent crime is much higher than those cities where guns are legal.

posted October 09, 2011 11:14 AM            

So katatonic, where are your credible sources to back up your blather?

Btw, about those "British" violent crime statistics...You Struck Out...Again!

posted October 09, 2011 12:38 PM            

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