applesanity
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In fact, 47.5% of all claims based on statistics are misleading.
Australian Gun Law
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Check out scholarly articles and editorials by Gary Mauser and Dave Kopel about gun control in Canada.
Disaster Up North: Gun-control laws run amuck.
Misfire: Firearm Registration in Canada
National Experiences with Firearms Regulation
The Failed Experiment
You can argue all you want about the validity of statistics but three of the articles I listed are peer-reviewed (which means that other scientists couldn't find anything wrong with the conclusions or it wouldn't have gotten published)
Disaster Up North: Gun-control laws run amuck.
Misfire: Firearm Registration in Canada
National Experiences with Firearms Regulation
The Failed Experiment
You can argue all you want about the validity of statistics but three of the articles I listed are peer-reviewed (which means that other scientists couldn't find anything wrong with the conclusions or it wouldn't have gotten published)
Passing a law does not do anything. A law is a norm of society stating things society considers wrong. If you pass a law without money and resources for enforcement that means that the event is only enforced after law enforcment catches a violator. So did that law help the vicitim?
the vast majority of 99% of gun owners are law abiding citizens who are not the reasons the law was passed. The other 1% who were the cause of the law could care less what law you pass they will continue to do the same thing.
Instead of passing laws that say you cant own guns we should have laws that say if you use a gun to commit a crime such as robbery, rape, ect. you get 10-20 years added to your sentence in which you must serve every day with no credit for good time or parole.
the vast majority of 99% of gun owners are law abiding citizens who are not the reasons the law was passed. The other 1% who were the cause of the law could care less what law you pass they will continue to do the same thing.
Instead of passing laws that say you cant own guns we should have laws that say if you use a gun to commit a crime such as robbery, rape, ect. you get 10-20 years added to your sentence in which you must serve every day with no credit for good time or parole.
WeedWacker
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So what does that make your statistic?
Statistics are based on a sample of the population. You start out with a premise and do a statistical study using samples to arrive at a conclusion.
Does that study take into account the history of the premise. If criminal activity has been decreasing for years prior to your premise unless the sample is large enough you cant honestly say that a law is causing a drop in crime. It can work both ways.
Does that study take into account the history of the premise. If criminal activity has been decreasing for years prior to your premise unless the sample is large enough you cant honestly say that a law is causing a drop in crime. It can work both ways.
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/facts/2005/02_selectedCrimeProfiles.html#homicide
if you go about a fifth down the page, there is a graph that shows, with the exception of port arthur, firearm related homicide is only slightly down, and that the downward trend started in 1969, and never were firearms responible for more than 44% of homicides.
additionally this link
http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/crime/homicide.html
shows that on average, total homicide rate has increased since 1996
if you go about a fifth down the page, there is a graph that shows, with the exception of port arthur, firearm related homicide is only slightly down, and that the downward trend started in 1969, and never were firearms responible for more than 44% of homicides.
additionally this link
http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/crime/homicide.html
shows that on average, total homicide rate has increased since 1996