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More Facts about guns in the US

Apr 21, 2013, 6:58 PM

Please refrain from posting public opinion polls as a rebuttal, your opinions add up to jack squat against facts, figures, statistics, and studies.

Mother Jones has tracked and mapped every shooting spree in the last three decades. “Since 1982, there have been at least 61 mass murders carried out with firearms across the country, with the killings unfolding in 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii,” they found. And in most cases, the killers had obtained their weapons legally:

Gun ownership in the United States is declining overall.

“For all the attention given to America’s culture of guns, ownership of firearms is at or near all-time lows,” writes political scientist Patrick Egan. The decline is most evident on the General Social Survey, though it also shows up on polling from Gallup, as you can see on this graph

notice a correlation to above graph)

America is an unusually violent country. But we’re not as violent as we used to be.

Kieran Healy, a sociologist at Duke University, made this graph of “deaths due to assault” in the United States and other developed countries. We are a clear outlier.

(Notice the swift drop in 1980, compare to to gun ownership graph)

The South is the most violent region in the United States.

In a subsequent post, Healy drilled further into the numbers and looked at deaths due to assault in different regions of the country. Just as the United States is a clear outlier in the international context, the South is a clear outlier in the national context:

More guns tend to mean more homicide.

The Harvard Injury Control Research Center assessed the literature on guns and homicide and found that there’s substantial evidence that indicates more guns means more murders. This holds true whether you’re looking at different countries or different states. Citations here.http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/

States with stricter gun control laws have fewer deaths from gun-related violence.

Last year, economist Richard Florida dove deep into the correlations between gun deaths and other kinds of social indicators. Some of what he found was, perhaps, unexpected: Higher populations, more stress, more immigrants, and more mental illness were not correlated with more deaths from gun violence. But one thing he found was, perhaps, perfectly predictable: States with tighter gun control laws appear to have fewer gun-related deaths. The disclaimer here is that correlation is not causation. But correlations can be suggestive:

“The map overlays the map of firearm deaths above with gun control restrictions by state,” explains Florida. “It highlights states which have one of three gun control restrictions in place – assault weapons’ bans, trigger locks, or safe storage requirements. Firearm deaths are significantly lower in states with stricter gun control legislation. Though the sample sizes are small, we find substantial negative correlations between firearm deaths and states that ban assault weapons (-.45), require trigger locks (-.42), and mandate safe storage requirements for guns (-.48).”

But particular policies to control guns receive favorable support by the majority of Americans

An August CNN/ORC poll asked respondents whether they favor or oppose a number of specific policies to restrict gun ownership. And when you drill down to that level, many policies, including banning the manufacture and possession of semi-automatic rifles, are popular.

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hey, I am all for private gun ownership.

However, I grew up on NJ and nobody had them and it is illgal to carry a loaded gun on yu and in your car. There was ZERO crime, outside of Camden and Newark where there was a lot of gang violence. We never got robbed, liquor stores did not get robbed, there were not roaming bands of criminals taking advantage of the situation. If yu take away Newark and Camden, NJ is one of the safest states in the country. Even with those two cities, it ranks very low in gun violence.

Having siad that, the cops I knew from Camden would sooner shoot you than ask questions if they found you suspicious. The cops in Santa Monica carry automatic rifles and if you even so much as flash a gun in their direction, they will mow your legs out from under you and then go celebrate with a beer. I trust them to keep my neighborhood safe. For people who live out in the country, I can totally understand the need to carry.

I leave my sliding glass doors unlocked, if someone wanted in bad enough they would smash them. I have never been robbed, mugged, assaulted, or ever felt the need to carry. But then again, I make it a point to be very careful of who I let into my home and I am tight with all my neighbors. We look out for each other. Concealed carry is legal here, but I only know of woman that carry a gun at all times.

More Facts about guns in the US

Very cool. Did you call boi and tell him to get on

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Far be it from me to criticize. You guys carry on. Send pics***

Reasonable and factual.

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If you say so. Looks like you and I are one, in the same.

Dont change the subject; I want pics.***

Interesting

Depends on when the study was done

I see that now. I did misread that for sure.***

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That could be a big part...

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You know I gotta go OT here for a second

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Stop quoting your stupid little study to me.

It's already somewhat restricted, that's the question...

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