Now you know that this not true. All kinds of liberal nuts jobs (Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Michael Moore, Mario Coumo, Eric Holder, and the late Ed Koch) have all made statements that they want a complete and total ban on guns.
Yes, the research shows that the more available guns in an area the less crime. This was discovered by a anti-gun pollster and researcher John Lott. Maybe you've heard of him.
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
I don't ever remember Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Michael Moore, Mario Cuomo, Eric Holder, or Ed Koch posting on this forum. I was VERY specific. I am talking about people like I B an Idiot, Iffy, Jim, and very possibly yourself, who advocate full 2nd Amendment rights, as seen in their eyes, Every person having the right to carry any weapon at any time in any place. On the other hand, I have not read any post from so-called Libtards like BigTex, Yssup Rider, Iva Biggen, Old-T, and myself who have advocated a total ban on handguns.
John Lott??? No idea who he is so I googled him. Seems like he is quite the idiot.
From http://mediamatters.org/research/201...n-lott/191885:
Gun researcher John Lott has made numerous media appearances in the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. to argue against the enactment of gun violence prevention measures.
While Lott uses his media platform to push a multitude of statistics -- often from his own research -- he has been thoroughly discredited as a serious academic researcher.
After Mass Shooting In Aurora, Lott Denied The Fact That America Has The Highest Rate Of Gun Deaths In The Civilized World. Appearing on CNN in the wake of the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, CO, Lott rejected host Piers Morgan's assertion that "America has the worst incidents of gun murders of any of what they call the civilized world." Lott told Morgan that "factually, it's not true." In reality, a 2003 Harvard School of Public Health study revealed that the firearm homicide rate in the United States is 19.5 times higher than the average rate found in other high-income nations.
Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime" Hypothesis Has Been Widely Discredited
Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime" Hypothesis Maintains That Gun Ownership Helps Curtail Crime. In his book
More Guns, Less Crime and in other media, Lott repeatedly pushes the myth that increased gun ownership, especially increased concealed weapons permits, results in a decreased incidents of violence crime. [University of Chicago Press, accessed
12/17/12]
Stanford Law Review: Lott's Central Hypothesis Is "Without Credible Statistical Support." In a Stanford Law Review report titled "The Latest Misfires in Support of the 'More Guns, Less Crime' Hypothesis," Ian Ayres and John J. Donohue III studied how coding errors in data undermine Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime" hypothesis. The authors explain:
So if you can find ANY articles showing a high correlation between gun ownership and lower crime rates, feel free to show them. Here is one article I quickly found on the subject:
From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3924063.html
The authors note that, though they can't prove a causal relationship between higher levels of gun ownership and homicide, "states with higher rates of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides."