Gun Control & RKBA
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(17,493 posts)fighting over turf. More legal firearms might cause a slight decrease in violent crime but would have little or no effect on drive by shootings. Better enforcement of existing laws or the legalization of certain drugs might do more to stop gun violence in Chicago than disarming honest citizens.
Obviously if there were no civilian owned firearms, legal or illegal, there would be no gun violence. Unfortunately any attempt to confiscate all firearms in our nation might lead to even more violence than we have today as it could cause to a revolution that would split our nation down the middle in the end. At the least many otherwise honest and productive citizens would end up in prisons for simply refusing to turn their weapons over to the government.
Many states do allow open carry without significant problems. All states permit some form of concealed carry. How do you tell the difference between a person legally carrying a concealed firearm from a person intending to misuse it?
In passing while we do indeed have a gun violence problem in our nation it has decreased significantly since the mid 1990s despite the skyrocketing sale of firearms in the same time frame and the spread of laws permiting the legal carrying of firearms in public.
MAY 7, 2013
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware
Pace of Decline Slows in Past Decade
BY D’VERA COHN, PAUL TAYLOR, MARK HUGO LOPEZ, CATHERINE A. GALLAGHER, KIM PARKER AND KEVIN T. MAASS
National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence plunged through the 1990s, but has declined less dramatically since 2000.
Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/
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