Less crime Err, has no real discernible impact on crime whatsoever: Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Confirms that Reducing Gun Ownership by Law-Abiding Citizens Does Nothing to Reduce Violence Worldwide By now, any informed American is familiar with Dr. John R. Lott, Jr.’s famous axiom of “More Guns, Less Crime.” In other words, […]

Dave Hardy is saying that some police chief organiations are worried about the new “lady taser” being used against police: “If a police officer or a civilian is stunned with a Taser there are a whole array of things that can happen and most of them are very bad,” said Jim Pasco, executive director of […]

Scotland has strict gun controls but is the most violent developed country. Meanwhile, Switzerland has six million people and at least two million guns, yet the “gun crime rate is so low that statistics are not even kept.” And they get machine guns issued to them by their government. Update: On the Swiss, Braisted says […]

Over at ProgressiveU (a liberal blog), Redneck Hunter is talking pro-gun: FABLE I: A gun in the home makes the home less safe FABLE II: The Second Amendment to the Constitution does not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms. FABLE IV: “Gun control” laws prevent crime. You know what, there’s a lot. […]

So, everyone on both sides is all atwitter about the recent bit of gun violence in schools. Here’s what’s up: In Utah: Gun class for Utah teachers Free concealed-weapons session is offered today More than a dozen teachers and public school employees will spend part of their UEA weekend in a classroom — learning how […]

Cam says expect more suits from Mayor Bloomberg. I found this interesting: Expect more cases and out-of-state lawsuits against gun dealers. The $800,000 contract for the James Mintz Group, the P.I. firm hired by Bloomberg, lasts until June 2008. The ATF says of the simulated purchases (which is a euphemism for committing a felony): Joe […]

Jeff at Alphecca looks at the recent report that says violent crime is down but gun crime is up: So as federal funds dry-up for municipalities’ crime fighting efforts, less police mean more crime. But that’s only half the story. Remember, I said there were two causes of the problem and the second one is […]

The AP: Murders, robberies and aggravated assaults in the United States increased last year, spurring an overall rise in violent crime for the first time since 2001, according to FBI data. Murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage […]

According to this piece at ABC News by LESLIE YERANSIAN, Bloomberg is targeting colored gun kits as made by Lauer Weaponry. Bloomberg is targeting one of the more popular brands of quality products and these paint jobs are expensive. The paint is cheap, if you do it yourself but it requires knowing what you’re doing. […]

That’s what headline should be. But this Brady Presser says: In a rare release of information the gun industry has tried to keep secret, the Justice Department has revealed data naming the gun dealers who rank as the five leading sellers of guns traced to crimes. […] Each of the five dealers, the court documents […]

The myspace kid who posed with guns (mentioned here) has been convicted even though he has committed no crime: An Evergreen high school student who posted Internet photos of himself posing with guns was convicted Tuesday on a charge of possession of a handgun by a juvenile. The conviction came despite his parents’ testimony that […]

In light of recent events, I have some more thoughts and information on Scoot. Nine years ago, he was convicted of two felonies. Those were felony contempt and felony reckless endangerment. All I know is the names of the charges and have no other details of the crimes. My wild-ass guess is he violated some […]

At least that’s what Ryan Donohue says. Which is more likely to incite violence? An inanimate object or glorifying violence to impressionable kids? Now, I’m not one for banning music or, well, lots of things but it seems a bit disingenuous to me. After all, other countries have fewer guns and more crime than the […]

Via Dr. Helen, comes this: Adolescent ownership and use of firearms is a growing concern, and results from the Rochester study suggest the concern is well founded. By the ninth and tenth grades, more boys own illegal guns (7 percent) than own legal guns (3 percent). Of the boys who own illegal guns, about half […]

Via Phelps, we learn that James Wolcott is a dumb ass. Note: I don’t really thing Mr. Wolcott is a dumbass but since he spent a good portion of the piece insulting Glenn Reynolds in particularly childish ways, I figured I’d show him a faster way to insult people without boring readers. I guess it […]

Tom has zinged me back on this five questions meme. I don’t intend to solicit five more but will answer Tom’s questions. Here they are: 1 – You’ve said in the past that you’re not opposed to all “common sense” gun regulation, just most. What, to you, constitutes acceptable gun regulation? In particular, I’m talking […]

Max Burns (again): As mentioned earlier in this section, the Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) did more to hurt the Democratic Party than to help it. Crime rates resulting from the use of firearms went virtually unchanged during the time of the ban, and many moderate Democrats and swing Republicans abandoned the Democratic Party over what […]

A pretty good read: This lack of correlation between gun control and violent crime rates would indicate that gun control on the whole does not do what HCI, Million Mom March, and the Brady Campaign, an influential gun-control advocacy group, says. It doesn’t reduce violent crime rates. A report by the Brady Campaign states there […]

JoinTogether: Aside from strong criticisms from gun-control advocates, there is little public outcry over the refusal of Congress to renew the federal assault-weapons ban, which expires Sept. 13, the Buffalo News reported Aug. 26. In 1994 when crimes involving assault weapons were at their highest, the ban was passed by Congress to curb violence. Since […]

The always excellent Alphapatriot writes that we unhappy gun-toting libertarians should vote for Bush because Kerry is much worse for gun rights. I agree, he is worse. Kerry and Edwards, neither of which typically can show up for their day jobs to vote on legislation, made special trips back to DC to vote for more […]

The SKS is evil incarnate. As such, the media hysteria continues to whip into a frenzy. Mention SKS and assault weapon ban in the same sentence to get the desired effect. What’s noticeably absent from these scare stories is that the SKS, which does not accept a detachable magazine, is not affected by the assault […]

One thing I rarely do in a gun control debate is resort to crime statistics. Because crime is irrelevant with respect to second amendment rights. For us to be free, we must realize that people will abuse their freedoms and be prepared for such abuse. People will abuse guns, just like they will abuse freedom […]

More guns, less crime: Crime around the NRA convention. And the NRA convention had a $53M impact on the economy. The anti-gun conventions impact how?

More guns, less crime. Record gun ownership and the murder rate halved.

Here’s the White House press office piece. Short version is that there will be no more re-importing of weapons that the US government gave to foreign countries. And for a trust or corporation to purchase an NFA item, individuals associated with the entity would have to undergo a background check. You know, because of all […]

I keep harping on this Boston lockdown thing because it’s serious. We can’t put this genie back in the bottle. It’s one thing to cordon off a house with a warrant, probable cause and the expectation that crime is happening there. It’s entirely another to just blanketly get all “none shall pass” on everyone who […]

Tell everyone to do their goddamned jobs The president got on TV, using children as props or human shields, and called on congress for more laws that would not have prevented Sandy Hook but we need them anyway because fuck gun owners. Or something. He then spelled out 23 executive actions (up from the originally […]

Record gun sales noticed by CNN. More guns, less crime. CBS notes the face of gun culture is changing. To women. Tam runs up the score.

1% of CCW permit holders account for 100% of CCW holder crime. Doesn’t really strike me as news that permit holders are significantly less likely to be criminals, but that’s not the NYT spin. Of course, no expose into the Mayors Against Guns crowd, who are 45 times more likely to be a criminal than […]

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