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California Governor Jerry Brown signed several gun control bills into law on Friday, including one measure that raises the minimum age for buying rifles and shotguns from 18 to 21.
U.S. Constitution: "...the right of the people to keep (own/possess) and bear (carry) arms shall not be infringed." This is an absolute imperative and applies not merely to Congress but to every level of local, county, state, and federal legislative, executive, and judicial branch, as well as to every level of law enforcement throughout our nation.
In response to Obama's January 2013 issuance of 23 executive orders directing federal agencies to improve knowledge of the causes of firearms violence, the interventions that might prevent it, and strategies to minimize its public health burden, the Centers for Disease Control and the Institute of Medicine, in collaboration with the National Research Council convened a committee of experts.
They found that implementing gun control which only serves to punish law abiding citizens does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to curb gun violence.
Here's what we DO know (as noted in the report):
- The risk of homicide by firearm is not distributed equally across the U.S. population. Individuals living in urban areas experience higher rates of firearm-related homicides than individuals in rural areas (Branas et al., 2004).
- Both victims and perpetrators of firearm-related homicides tend to be male (Cooper and Smith, 2011).
- In the vast majority of murders for which the victim–offender relationship is known, the victim is a member of the same race as the offender and is acquainted with the offender (Cooper and Smith, 2011).
- Homicides by a stranger, friend, or acquaintance are more likely to involve a gun than those committed by an intimate partner or family member (Cooper and Smith, 2011).
- The risk of homicide by firearm varies by race and ethnicity. In 2010, the firearm-related homicide rate was significantly higher for blacks than Asian/Pacific Islanders, whites, and American Indian/Alaskan Natives.
- Younger populations represent a large proportion of homicide victims and perpetrators (Cooper and Smith, 2011).
The problem with attempting to deny firearms to the latter, Governor Brown prevents the law-abiding citizens (95%) of the latter from defending themselves against the law-breaking 5%. EVERY time governments have taken this approach, violent crime EXPLODES. The clearest example is the UK's TRIPLING of violent crime rates per capita immediately following their country-wide firearms ban. The law-abiding citizens could no longer defend themselves against criminals, so the criminals beat the snot out of them with bats, bars, knives, and yes, shot them with illegally obtained firearms. Their violent crime rate is still 2.4 times higher than it was before the ban, whereas here in "gun-happy America," it's less than half of what it was 25 years ago.
We kept our guns, even strengthening our gun rights, and our violent crime rate is HALF of what it was in 1992. The UK, meanwhile, banned all firearms and their violent crime rate remains more than twice as it was in 1992.
Again, Governor Brown, banning the ability of any class or the population as a whole from defending themselves ALWAYS results in HIGHER rates of violent crime. Furthermore, strengthening gun rights and science-based policing ALWAYS results in lower rates of violent crime.
California has become a textbook example of how NOT to run a state, or a country, for that matter, into the ground.
U.S. Constitution: "...the right of the people to keep (own/possess) and bear (carry) arms shall not be infringed." This is an absolute imperative and applies not merely to Congress but to every level of local, county, state, and federal legislative, executive, and judicial branch, as well as to every level of law enforcement throughout our nation.
In response to Obama's January 2013 issuance of 23 executive orders directing federal agencies to improve knowledge of the causes of firearms violence, the interventions that might prevent it, and strategies to minimize its public health burden, the Centers for Disease Control and the Institute of Medicine, in collaboration with the National Research Council convened a committee of experts.
They found that implementing gun control which only serves to punish law abiding citizens does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to curb gun violence.
Here's what we DO know (as noted in the report):
- The risk of homicide by firearm is not distributed equally across the U.S. population. Individuals living in urban areas experience higher rates of firearm-related homicides than individuals in rural areas (Branas et al., 2004).
- Both victims and perpetrators of firearm-related homicides tend to be male (Cooper and Smith, 2011).
- In the vast majority of murders for which the victim–offender relationship is known, the victim is a member of the same race as the offender and is acquainted with the offender (Cooper and Smith, 2011).
- Homicides by a stranger, friend, or acquaintance are more likely to involve a gun than those committed by an intimate partner or family member (Cooper and Smith, 2011).
- The risk of homicide by firearm varies by race and ethnicity. In 2010, the firearm-related homicide rate was significantly higher for blacks than Asian/Pacific Islanders, whites, and American Indian/Alaskan Natives.
- Younger populations represent a large proportion of homicide victims and perpetrators (Cooper and Smith, 2011).
The problem with attempting to deny firearms to the latter, Governor Brown prevents the law-abiding citizens (95%) of the latter from defending themselves against the law-breaking 5%. EVERY time governments have taken this approach, violent crime EXPLODES. The clearest example is the UK's TRIPLING of violent crime rates per capita immediately following their country-wide firearms ban. The law-abiding citizens could no longer defend themselves against criminals, so the criminals beat the snot out of them with bats, bars, knives, and yes, shot them with illegally obtained firearms. Their violent crime rate is still 2.4 times higher than it was before the ban, whereas here in "gun-happy America," it's less than half of what it was 25 years ago.
We kept our guns, even strengthening our gun rights, and our violent crime rate is HALF of what it was in 1992. The UK, meanwhile, banned all firearms and their violent crime rate remains more than twice as it was in 1992.
Again, Governor Brown, banning the ability of any class or the population as a whole from defending themselves ALWAYS results in HIGHER rates of violent crime. Furthermore, strengthening gun rights and science-based policing ALWAYS results in lower rates of violent crime.
California has become a textbook example of how NOT to run a state, or a country, for that matter, into the ground.