Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumSince contollers seem to be counting on the CDC to ride to the rescue, lets see what the CDC says
A lot of discussion on gun violence gets derailed over what the actual facts are. The CDC is held up by many as a unbiased source so here is a synopsis of the latest CDC report. There are facts here to support both sides of the issue.
2. Most indices of crime and gun violence are getting better, not worse. Overall crime rates have declined in the past decade, and violent crimes, including homicides specifically, have declined in the past 5 years, the report notes. Between 2005 and 2010, the percentage of firearm-related violent victimizations remained generally stable. Meanwhile, firearm-related death rates for youth ages 15 to 19 declined from 1994 to 2009. Accidents are down, too: Unintentional firearm-related deaths have steadily declined during the past century. The number of unintentional deaths due to firearm-related incidents accounted for less than 1 percent of all unintentional fatalities in 2010.
5. Mass shootings arent the problem. The number of public mass shootings of the type that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School accounted for a very small fraction of all firearm-related deaths, says the report. Since 1983 there have been 78 events in which 4 or more individuals were killed by a single perpetrator in 1 day in the United States, resulting in 547 victims and 476 injured persons. Compare that with the 335,000 gun deaths between 2000 and 2010 alone.
7. Guns are used for self-defense often and effectively. Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008, says the report. The three million figure is probably high, based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. But a much lower estimate of 108,000 also seems fishy, because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use. Furthermore, Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was 'used' by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/06/handguns_suicides_mass_shootings_deaths_and_self_defense_findings_from_a.html
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)a consideration to be weighed against how awesome those guns feel in your hands. To the SANE people in the world they are DEAD children.
hack89
(39,171 posts)there are many things that kill kids. We are not saying we shouldn't reduce that number but we also notice that your outrage is selective.
it's really not about the children but they want everyone to think that. They are not able to justify the hypocrisy.
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)on a a regular basis.
So explain why we don't see those posts here, from my view it means the anti-gun extremists either don't care about those inner-city children or they are hypocrites because the inner-city children being killed don't fit the narrative because many of those cities are states with strict gun laws and because the inner-city children are killing each other.