And Pierce Morgan can kiss my American ass.

I will re post this source for all of you Let the numbers speak for themselves.

Actually, if the Australian Bureau of Criminology can be believed, Americans would be insane to concern themselves with what non-Americans think about American gun rights.

In 2002 — five years after enacting its gun ban — the Australian Bureau of Criminology acknowledged there is no correlation between gun control and the use of firearms in violent crime. In fact, the percent of murders committed with a firearm was the highest it had ever been in 2006 (16.3 percent), says the D.C. Examiner.

Even Australia’s Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research acknowledges that the gun ban had no significant impact on the amount of gun-involved crime:

In 2006, assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
Sexual assault — Australia’s equivalent term for rape — increased 29.9 percent.
Overall, Australia’s violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.

Moreover, Australia and the United States — where no gun-ban exists — both experienced similar decreases in murder rates:

Between 1995 and 2007, Australia saw a 31.9 percent decrease; without a gun ban, America’s rate dropped 31.7 percent.
During the same time period, all other violent crime indices increased in Australia: assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
Sexual assault — Australia’s equivalent term for rape — increased 29.9 percent.
Overall, Australia’s violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.
At the same time, U.S. violent crime decreased 31.8 percent: rape dropped 19.2 percent; robbery decreased 33.2 percent; aggravated assault dropped 32.2 percent.
Australian women are now raped over three times as often as American women.

So, if the USA follows Australia’s lead in banning guns, it should expect a 42 percent increase in violent crime, a higher percentage of murders committed with a gun, and three times more rape. One wonders if Freddy even bothered to look up the relative crime statistics.

The International Crime Victims Survey, conducted by Leiden University in Holland, found that England and Wales ranked second overall in violent crime among industrialized nations. Twenty-six percent of English citizens — roughly one-quarter of the population — have been victimized by violent crime. Australia led the list with more than 30 percent of its population victimized. The United States didn’t even make the “top 10″ list of industrialized nations whose citizens were victimized by crime.

www.captainsjournal.com/2012/07/23/do-gun-bans-reduce-violent-crime-ask-the-aussies-and-brits/

Again numbers do not lie rep. Politicians do. Please cite your sources for your stats. Sources with the word wiki do not count. You are responding out of fear of something you do not understand. I fear Arab terrorists but I am not calling for a ban on Arabic immigrants. Should we ban everything you fear.

sbcoalition.org

Totals, 2000-2008 % of total

Handguns 65,581 51%

Rifles3,791 3%

Shotguns 4,356 3%

Other firearm not specified or type unknown 820 1%

Firearms, type not stated 11,564 9%

Firearm subtotals 86,112 66%

Knives or cutting instruments 16,547 13%

Blunt Objects 5,782 4%

Personal Weapons 8,220 6%

Poison 106 0%

Explosives 43 0%

Fire 1,093 1%

Narcotics 408 0%

Drowning 150 0%

Strangulation 1,281 1%

Asphyxiation 948 1%

All other 9,051 7%

All other weapons subtotals 43,629 34%

Total, all types: 129,741 100%Source, U.S. Census 2011 – Murder Victims–Circumstances and Weapons Used or Cause of Death

Thank you Scott. I was looking for rep's sources on how gun bans are an effective deterrent for crime.

www.childrensdefense.org

Just Engineer please

the other .org is quite entailing

I AM CITING MY SOURCES www.childrensdefense.org AND U.S. Census 2011 – Murder Victims–Circumstances and Weapons Used or Cause of Death

I AM NOT THE AUTHOR,THESE PEOPLE DID THE WORK.

U.S. Department of JusticeOffice of Justice ProgramsBureau of Justice Statistics

bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov

THIS PDF SHOWS THE AGES OF THE PREPS AND STATS ,this shows actual intell on this problem.

I CITING THIS SOURCE I DID NOT WRITE OR ALTER IN ANY WAY.YOU CAN DOWN LOAD THIS PDF.

Thanks again for the citations Engineer. I checked out the children's defense fund site you used. It is a politically biased sight. It also offered no empirical proof that gun bans reduce crime. I will post an article that used an university study for its info.

Peter Tucci

Editor, Daily Caller

I’m from California. I’m not an NRA member. I don’t own a gun, nor do any of my family members. I’ve never been hunting. I’ve only gone shooting once in my life (at a Daily Caller office retreat, incidentally). I’m not against gun-control laws on principle. And, frankly, I kind of like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

All of these factors make me an unlikely opponent of gun control. But I’ve grown into a pretty staunch one.

The main problem with gun-control laws is that they don’t work. Florida State University criminology professor Gary Kleck, a political liberal and one-time supporter of gun-control laws, has been studying guns and their effect on violence and crime since 1976. What he’s found is that gun-control laws have no net effect on violence or crime rates, because the benefits of widespread gun ownership cancel out the costs.

And there are benefits of widespread gun ownership. For one, guns deter criminals. Burglars are less likely to target occupied homes or businesses in countries with high rates of gun ownership than they are in countries with low rates of gun ownership, probably because they don’t want to get shot. Guns also level the playing field between victims and their attackers, who tend to be young men. According to Kleck, “There are perhaps 600,000-1 million defensive uses of guns each year, about the same as the number of crimes committed with guns.” And contrary to popular belief, gun-wielding victims of assault or robbery are less likely than unarmed victims of assault or robbery to be injured.

Kleck’s theory that gun-control laws don’t reduce crime — which has been corroborated by other scholars — is consistent with the fact that America’s violent crime rate has been steadily falling since 1990 even as gun-control laws like the Assault Weapons Ban and Chicago’s handgun ban have either expired or been repealed. Today, crime is more widespread in Western Europe than it is in the U.S.

Gun-control laws might be worth pursuing if they stood a chance of taking guns out of criminals’ hands, or at least forcing them to use less lethal types of guns. But they don’t, for two reasons.

First, criminals rarely obey laws. Studies show that most criminals acquire guns through friends or through theft, which means they’re able to bypass background checks and other well-meaning restrictions. Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook shooter, stole the guns he used from his mother.

Second, there are close to 300 million privately owned firearms in the U.S. Even if Congress passed a law banning the sale of firearms tomorrow — which would violate the Second Amendment — it would be decades before the supply of guns decreased significantly, especially considering that many guns are operational 100 years or more after they’re manufactured. The government wouldn’t be able to eliminate this enormous stock of guns — buy-back programs would only go so far and straight-up confiscation would violate the Fourth Amendment. Meanwhile, illegal guns would flood into the U.S. from other countries.

://dailycaller.com/2012/12/17/why-im-against-gun-control/

Yes I agree that one is bias but the other 2 are showing that hand guns are the leading cause of death between assault rifles and other guns.

One of the charts shows when the assault ban was in effect and hand guns still out weighed the results plus the charts show the age of the preps.

True. Now if one of the gun ban supporters can show an actual study that proves gun bans reduce crime I may be a little impressed.

The ban doesnt work page 27 shows a increase in gun violence.Security works drop doors drop windows cameras

and personnel that works.Not wishing for good things in fairyland thats just an excuse to hide from reailty.

One thing is perfectly clear, Gun Sales are up, 30 Round Magazine Sales are up, Ammo is flying off the shelves, and we have not buried all of the victims in Newtown, Connecticut. Going forward, nothing will change, we will soon forget Newtown and wait for the next assault with rapid fire / multi-capacity weapons, and realize that without wars, the American Military Industrial Complex needs a market for the products built for our military, and the militaries of the world. This is nothing more than Economics 101, and one-year from now, on the Anniversary of Newtown, we will learn that assault weapon sales have increased in the United States, the gun lobby is fiscally sound, and the gun manufacturers will be announcing increased revenue. So we need to start a war, or perhaps start arming the rebels in five or six African and Middle Eastern Countries, or look to the American Market for buyers of new and improved assault weapons.

We can never give away our Freedom to get a sence of false security. THe founders put in the 2nd Admendment as much to protect us from the Government as they did to protect us from criminals. When they take our guns what is next Freedom of speech? freedom of Religion? or maybe our right to vote. I don't know about you when they come to to get me because I express myself as a free American I wanrt to be able to do more than throw rocks at there Tanks. THis is how Hitler began his power grab. slowly taking away people rights and freedoms until there was no one left to stand against him.

The "LAW" is whatever Obama says it is..............This country WAS a govt of the people , for the people and by the people. Gun confiscation is only a matter of time. A divided country cannot stand. There is no more America, only a mix of humans with an allegiance to the United Nations. This great country stood for a little over two hundred years, but like Rome, our time is done.

I noticed, when I go into a gun dealers store to just browse. I see the guys and girls working in there all carry pistols in some type of holster. I may be wrong but the site of everyone "carrying" seems to be a good deterrent for those who may enter the businness with a mind set to break the law. There just seems to be a sense of security all around. Could be just me I guess.

This is a joke and a ploy to divert everyone from working on a budget. Guns are not killers - hate kills and the religious fanatics in this country are spreading their hate through the press. On the first day this happened - the press rushed on "air" with lies in order to "beat" each other with the "scoop". Having the "press-i-dent" jump om this now is a total Laugh Out Loud moment.

There are no words to describe this clown. That so many Americans support the fool is really, really funny.

A more boorish and incompetent leader can't be found unless we look to a few third world countries.

Once again the Republicans accuse the Democrats of being guilty of EXACTLY the dirty tactics that they(republicans) are using. It's a classic move by the GOP and maybe it fools some of the people some of the time.

The GOP is saying, ""The White House's opposition to a back-up plan to ensure taxes don't rise on American families is growing more bizarre and irrational by the day," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said earlier"

In reality: The BIZARRE thing is how the GOP clings to their stance of NOT RAISING TAXES on the RICH. Now, I find that bizarre. They want to include the wealthy on tax breaks being extended and once again "hold hostage" the middle class to get those wealthy people their tax breaks. Bizarre?, now that is bizarre. Cut programs targeting the low earners and retain generous tax cuts, temporary tax cuts, that were given to the wealthy in a FAILED attempt at what is called trickle down economics that was shown NOT to produce new jobs. You know, those jobs that never materialized after those tax cuts were put into effect.

Now, that is what I call IRRATIONAL and the GOP now accuses the White House of being the irrational ones. With BS like that being thrown around its no wonder this cliff is rapidly approaching. Next election should be one where once again many Republicans will be shown the door.

Good story here…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -

A former Marine and father of two decided to help ease his daughter's fears after the tragic school shooting in Connecticut late last week by standing guard outside her west Nashville school. Jordan Pritchard served eight years in the Marine Corps and was honorably discharged last May. Over the weekend, Pritchard said his daughter told him she was scared to return to school following the Connecticut tragedy. "As a dad, I can't have that. I can't have my daughter come to school worried about somebody coming in and hurting her," Pritchard said. He added, "To settle her peace of mind, who better than her dad to come out here and stand in front of the school?"

Standing guard at the school has not only eased his daughter's mind it has also been very reassuring to other parents. "Just to know that symbolic uniform that represents protection is here at Gower [Elementary] is just heart warming. It's peaceful, it brought a tear to my eye yesterday," parent Lucy Hipp said. Grandmother Karyn Brown added, "It is a sense of comfort to know that people will step up and take responsibility in the
community to protect our youngest."

Pritchard tells Nashville's News 2 many of his fellow parents are extremely thankful for his presence. "Ninety five percent of the parents are crying when they come up here and if they are not crying here, they are crying by the time they get to the office. So the office says," Pritchard said.

When will Obama get courageous and support traditional values? Virginity till marriage. One man one woman with a JOB before bringing life into this world. Demand that Hollywood and the music industry stop the glorifying of premarital and wanton sex, violence, drug use. Confront the "gansta" lifestyle etc etc. Put the Word of God back into the schools.

But the guy is a political opportunist, a liberal who wants to get as many people as possible onto the government dole.

lukewarm

Here's the liberal "plan".

First, scare everyone that we are in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Then open the spending and borrowing floodgates to push our country towards bankruptcy.

Second, test the Constitution and the power of the President by using executive order to appoint liberals to posts and circumvent our immigration laws.

Third, blame everything on the rich, Wall Street and Capitalism. Introduce people to Socialism, slow and easy while making Capitalism look like a disaster.

Fourth, steal an election by demonizing your opponent rather than telling the truth about where you want to take the country.

Fifth, raise taxes on the small business employers and make them out to be the bad guy for laying people off.

Sixth, take guns away from citizens so they can't fight back when we get to the seventh goal.

Seventh, now that we have a defenseless citizenry, rip up the Constitution by telling everyone it's a "living, breathing document" and begin to transform the United States into Socialism where the government, not the people, control everything.

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leftward bound

fear and smear... are tea billy characteristics ... nice spin of misinformation

What luke warm Has stated is right, if you remember correctly, in 2008 candidate Barack Obama projected his vision a bit and the words he stated went un heeded by many who decided to elect him anyway.

{We are going to fundamentally change america} "hope & change" "Yes we can"

When he said fundamentally change America, did anyone have an idea of how radical that change was going to be? If not, you should have been. Your next clue should have been when he stated, “We will change America, we will change the world” Arrogance? Maybe, but also someone with an agenda that does not include keeping America the way we know it. Or how about when he said, “We are not a Christian nation.” Did any of these statements not bother the American people and if it they did not, why?

America has become Numb and unfeeling to the reality of life. Many are living in fantasy of the moment ideology, Where you can spend all your money, and then spend someone else s money when it comes time to pay it back---> you don't have too, you just keep spending.

As long as, "If it feels good do it", anyway... Just one or two examples would be, first: "the anus" designed as a exit ONLY... However as time progresses it is glorified more and more ass a portal of pleasure. Completely ignoring its original function as exit only, Butt, If it feels good do it...

The same thing is applicable, to using Abortion as a form of Birth control... let's have sexual intercourse there is no accountability if you get pregnant and you do not want the consequences then abort it...

"IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT"

un protected sex " dont worry about disease or sickness "IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT"

Anal sex "IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT" Driving a car at 120 mph in a school zone "IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT"

Flying a jet airliner into a building "IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT"

Killing a border agent "IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT"

Watching porn"IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT"

Beating your wife "IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT"

Killing Yourself "IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT"

Culturally, We have side stepped our Original path, and have been in uncharted territory for some time now. As we progress further into the abyss of depravity the appalling in-differences we subject ourselves too will be starkly more and more shocking. However, 4ward -------->ho

"Get Used Too It"

Jake Tapper's question to Barack Obama yesterday at his press conference spoke volumes

"Where have you been for the past 4 years on gun control?"

Obama - as ususal was pissed and stunned that this was asked - began to drop one excuse after another - just as he did throughout the election

We've got a president who is a failure and ready to make excuses for it - always

Why all of a sudden is Obama starting to try an demand things? Did something happen to make him look like a little kid? Few arrogant people ever find common ground with anyone. The days of kings commanding is long, long pass.