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| The following article has been re-posted by permission from Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. The Second Amendment Sisters are a fairly new organization, formed in response to the "Million Mom March" as a beacon for the sensible and strong women of America. We strongly suggest you support the Second Amendment Sisters' courageous efforts at dispelling the many myths about guns & women. You don't need to be a woman to join! Boge Quinn
Derived from Gun Facts by Guy Smith FACT: The non-gun homicide rate for children in the U.S. is more than twice as high than other western countries.
* Kids and Guns, 2000, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention This indicates that the problem is violence, NOT guns !! FACT: 82% of homicides to children age 13 and under were committed without a gun. * 1997, FBI Uniform Crime Statistics FACT: 0.1% of all deaths for children between the ages 0-14 are from firearms, 0.6% are from motor vehicles, 5.3% are from being struck in beatings or bludgeoning, 6.0% from poisoning, and 42.6% from suffocation. * 1997 National Center for Health Statistics National Vital
Statistics Report FACT: In 1996 there were only 21 accidental gun deaths for
children under age 15. About twice as many children under 10 die from drowning
in bathtubs. MYTH: 13 Children are killed each day by guns. *FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1997 FACT: 18-20 year olds commit over 23% of all gun murders. None of these criminals are allowed to purchase a handgun due to their age under current law. * U.S. Treasury and Justice Dept. Report, 1999 FACT: During the Clinton administration, federal prosecutions of gun-related crimes dropped more than 44%. * Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at
Syracuse Univ. 1992-1998 FACT: There are more than 22,000 gun laws at the city, county, state, and federal level. * BATF estimate, 1992
FACT: There are more guns in the U.S. than cars
(228,000,000 guns according to the 1998 FBI statistics and 207,754,000
automobiles according to the 1998 Federal Highway Administration registrations).
Yet, you are 31 times more likely to be accidentally killed by a car than a gun
according to the National Safety Council
despite cars having been registered
and licensed for more than 100 years. FACT: 90% of all violent crime in the U.S. does not involve any gun of any type.
FACT: Less than 1% of all guns will ever be used in the commission of any type of crime (much less violent crime). *FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1994 FACT: Two-thirds of the people that die each year from gunfire are criminals shooting other criminals. * FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1994 FACT: The national five day waiting period under the Brady Bill had no impact on murder or robbery, but slightly increased rape and aggravated assault rates by a few percent. For these two crime categories, the major effect was to delay law-abiding citizens from getting a gun for protection. The risks were greatest for crimes against women. * Dr. John Lott Jr., Univ. of Chicago School of Law FACT: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 per day. * Gary Kleck, Criminologist, Florida State Univ.
FACT: Every day, 550 rapes, 1,100 murders, and 5,200 other violent crimes per day are prevented just by showing a handgun. In less than 0.9% of the time is the gun ever actually ever fired. * Gary Kleck, Criminologist, Florida State Univ. FACT: Every year, people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times- more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13 seconds. * Fall 1995, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology FACT: Of the 250,000,000 annual self-defense cases using guns, more than 7.7% are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse. * U.S. Dept. of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Rape Victimization in 26 American Cities, 1979 MYTH: Concealed Carry Laws Increase Crime * Murder rates drop 8% * Rape rates fall 5%
More to the point, crime is significantly higher
in states without right -to -carry laws. TYPE OF CRIME HOW MUCH HIGHER IN RESTRICTIVE STATES (states without Concealed carry laws) Violent Crime 81% higher Murder .. 86% higher Rape 25% higher Assault 82% higher Robbery .. 105% higher Auto Theft .. 60% higher * John Lott, David Mustard: This study involved county level crime statistics from all 3,054 counties in the U.S. from 1977 through 1992. During this time, ten states adopted right-to-carry laws. It is estimated that if all states had adopted right-to-carry laws, in 1992 the U.S. would have avoided 1,400 murders, 4,200 rapes, 12,000 robberies, 60,000 aggravated assaults- and would have saved over $5,000,000,000 in victim expenses.
FACT: 92.7% of law enforcement officials believe that citizens should be able to purchase firearms for self-defense and sporting purposes. * 1999 Police Survey, National Assoc. of Chiefs of Police MYTH: Police are our protection, and people don't need guns. FACT: The courts have consistently ruled that the police do not have an obligation to protect individuals. In Warren v. District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Dept., 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App. 1981), the court stated: 'Courts have
without exception concluded that when a municipality or other governmental
entity undertakes to furnish police services, it assumes a duty only to the
public at large and not to individual members of the community.' FACT: After Canada's 1977 gun controls prohibited handgun possession for self defense, the "breaking and entering" crime rate rose 25%, surpassing the U.S. rate. * Pat Mayhew, Residential Burglary: A Comparison of the United States, Canada and England and Wales (Nat'l Inst. Of Just., Wash., D.C., 1987)
MYTH: Japan has strict gun control and a less violent
society. * United Nations data
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