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While Americans are deluged with news of homicides, gun deaths dropped 2l% from 1993 to 1997, the lowest level in more than 30 years. Firearm related injuries fell 4l% according to figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2000 looks to be a year in which attacks on the 2nd Amendment right to own guns will increase, led by the White House. The claim is that guns and crime are synonymous, but serious crime in the U.S. continued its free fall during the first six months of 1999. Murder was down 13%, compared with the same period in 1998. Property crimes and burglary dropped 14%. Overall, violent crime was down 8% in the first months of 1999.
The continued cry for the registration and increased control of guns, despite an estimated 20,000 laws currently on the books, ignores a 1996 study by the University of Chicago Law School that analyzed crime data from every U.S. county over l5 years and found that violent crime fell after states made it legal to carry concealed weapons. Those that did, reduced their murder rates by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7%, and robberies by 3%, A 1997 Justice Department study found that as many as 1.5 million people use a gun in self-defense every year. It is estimated this saves society up to $38.9 billion annually.
While the killings in Columbine High School were a major story, deadly violence in U.S. schools has decreased in recent years and, despite ontinued news of isolated school incidents, 1998-99 may prove to be one of the safest school years this decade. Data from the Department of Justice and National School Safety Center supports the fact that schools remain among the safest places for children. Chances were approximately one in a million that a youngster would die violently at school.
For the record, Warning Signs is Copyright protected by Alan Caruba, 1999. Permission to quote in whole or in part is granted, as are links to Warning Signs, so long as attribution of the author and The National Anxiety Center is cited. Notification via email or other means of communication is requested.
Copyright 1999 Alan Caruba
All Rights Reserved.
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Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.
http://www.anxietycenter.com/warning.htm
While Americans are deluged with news of homicides, gun deaths dropped 2l% from 1993 to 1997, the lowest level in more than 30 years. Firearm related injuries fell 4l% according to figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2000 looks to be a year in which attacks on the 2nd Amendment right to own guns will increase, led by the White House. The claim is that guns and crime are synonymous, but serious crime in the U.S. continued its free fall during the first six months of 1999. Murder was down 13%, compared with the same period in 1998. Property crimes and burglary dropped 14%. Overall, violent crime was down 8% in the first months of 1999.
The continued cry for the registration and increased control of guns, despite an estimated 20,000 laws currently on the books, ignores a 1996 study by the University of Chicago Law School that analyzed crime data from every U.S. county over l5 years and found that violent crime fell after states made it legal to carry concealed weapons. Those that did, reduced their murder rates by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7%, and robberies by 3%, A 1997 Justice Department study found that as many as 1.5 million people use a gun in self-defense every year. It is estimated this saves society up to $38.9 billion annually.
While the killings in Columbine High School were a major story, deadly violence in U.S. schools has decreased in recent years and, despite ontinued news of isolated school incidents, 1998-99 may prove to be one of the safest school years this decade. Data from the Department of Justice and National School Safety Center supports the fact that schools remain among the safest places for children. Chances were approximately one in a million that a youngster would die violently at school.
For the record, Warning Signs is Copyright protected by Alan Caruba, 1999. Permission to quote in whole or in part is granted, as are links to Warning Signs, so long as attribution of the author and The National Anxiety Center is cited. Notification via email or other means of communication is requested.
Copyright 1999 Alan Caruba
All Rights Reserved.
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Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.