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discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,579 posts)
Fri May 27, 2016, 06:26 AM May 2016

The National Rifle Association (NRA) would have you believe that guns stop murders.

The gun control lobby would have you believe that gun control reduces murders. They are both wrong. Gun bans have always had the same effect once implemented: none.

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United Kingdom: The UK enacted its handgun ban in 1996. From 1990 until the ban was enacted, the homicide rate fluctuated between 10.9 and 13 homicides per million. After the ban was enacted, homicides trended up until they reached a peak of 18.0 in 2003. Since 2003, which incidentally was about the time the British government flooded the country with 20,000 more cops, the homicide rate has fallen to 11.1 in 2010. In other words, the 15-year experiment in a handgun ban has achieved absolutely nothing.

Ireland: Ireland banned firearms in 1972. Ireland’s homicide rate was fairly static going all the way back to 1945. In that period, it fluctuated between 0.1 and 0.6 per 100,000 people. Immediately after the ban, the murder rate shot up to 1.6 per 100,000 people in 1975. It then dropped back down to 0.4. It has trended up, reaching 1.4 in 2007.

Australia: Australia enacted its gun ban in 1996. Murders have basically run flat, seeing only a small spike after the ban and then returning almost immediately to preban numbers. It is currently trending down, but is within the fluctuations exhibited in other nations.

Plain and simple. Gun control has no significant impact on murder rates.

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The National Rifle Association (NRA) would have you believe that guns stop murders. (Original Post) discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2016 OP
NRA also suggesting that police can't protect your safety and/or your life. no_hypocrisy May 2016 #1
because the unions are agreeing gejohnston May 2016 #2
The police have no legal responsibility to protect you DonP May 2016 #3

no_hypocrisy

(48,827 posts)
1. NRA also suggesting that police can't protect your safety and/or your life.
Fri May 27, 2016, 06:34 AM
May 2016

It's up to you.

Surprised police unions haven't addressed that meme.

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
3. The police have no legal responsibility to protect you
Fri May 27, 2016, 10:46 AM
May 2016

Castle Rock v. Gonzalez and a bunch of other SCOTUS decisions have determined that, unless you are in police custody, they can not be held legally responsible for your protection.

"To Serve and Protect" is a nice slogan on the door of a squad car, but has no real legal teeth.

So it's not really a meme, its a fact.

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