More Guns = Less Crime
- ....on Monday the FBI released crime statistics that should cause the applauding anti-gunners to sit on their hands. The statistics indicate that between 2008 and 2009, as gun sales soared, the number of murders in our country decreased 7.2 percent. That amounts to about an 8.2 percent decrease in the per capita murder rate, after the increase in our nation's legal and illegal population is taken into account. And it translates into about a 10.5 percent decrease in the murder rate between 2004, when the ban expired, and the end of 2009. And finally, it means that in 2009 our nation's murder rate fell to a 45-year low.
Shaved had this up earlier and the original article is actually from the NRA-ILA website. The McDonald decision is expected shortly from the Supreme Court, possibly as soon as today.
Don't expect much coverage from the local Daley-controlled media about guns reducing violence, but you can bet they'll be all over the USSC decision should it go against Shortshanks while screaming, "Think of the children!"
Don't expect much coverage from the local Daley-controlled media about guns reducing violence, but you can bet they'll be all over the USSC decision should it go against Shortshanks while screaming, "Think of the children!"
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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An armed society, is a polite society!
Remember that, Miami(Concealed Carry City) went almost two months without a homicide last year.
We still need 2,500-3,000 more coppers. Armed citizens are a huge plus, but the war rages in the trenches unabated.
I like to call the Trib and Sun Times the two Daley papers.
And you’re absolutely right that they and the rest of the liberal fascist propaganda media will be screaming for the heads of the Supreme Court justices if they rule in favor of the Constitution. The 14th Amendment was intended to insure that no state could deny a citizen their constitutionally guarantied rights. Over 100 years ago when the 14th was passed freed slaves throughout the south were being terrorized and lynched. The specific intention of the amendment was to insure that the freed slaves could arm themselves for defense. This decision is way over due.
long live the 2nd amendment!
More likely, there's no correlation either way:
"The debate over whether guns spur or deter crime has been under way for decades. So far, research has come out with, in essence, a net-zero correlation between gun sales and crime rates. More likely factors for the crime rate decline have to do with Americans hunkering down, spending less time out on the town with cash in their pockets and more time at home with the porch lights on, experts say. So-called "smart policing" that focuses specifically on repeat offenders and troubled areas could also be playing a role, as could extended unemployment benefits that staved off desperation."
Ref: C.S.Monitor -- http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2009/1223/More-guns-equal-more-crime-Not-in-2009-FBI-crime-report-shows.
I can see it now. ShortShanks (warning the following is legally protected satire of public figures, I dont want to be extradited from my northwest side bungalow) sharpening the bayonet on his new favorite love toy muttering, "up their butts, up their butts". While at the same time his press secretary is setting up a meet with the FBI director. Huberman has already been dispatched to home depot, to secure a piece of linoleum.
Maybe the more guns could help solve some murders here and raise the clearance rate.
SCOTUS will most certainly decide that the Second Amendment means what it says. How narrow or broad the decision is written is yet to be known. What I think most of us here know is that Mayor Shortshanks will huff and puff and then make the rules so onerous to own a handgun in Chicago that he will shortly be dragged into court again, spending yet more of the taxpayer's hard earned dollars in legal fees. I hope he understand that once SCOTUS declares that owning a firearm is protected under the Constitution any further lawsuits will be for civil rights violations and will subject the city to monetary damages.
Gee, I wonder how many policemen could be hired with all the money Shortshanks is pissing away in lawyer fees????
as soon as today!? that's great!
Send all this to Greg Hinz of CRAIN's Chicago Business (an oxymoron if there ever was one).
He supports Daley and his anti-gun stance.
For supposedly a sophisticated city, this one has a really sad bunch of reporters commenting on things.
Invest in refrigerated trucks folks.They will be in demand soon.
The specific intention of the amendment was to insure that the freed slaves could arm themselves for defense.
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This is correct. The 14th also spelt out what a citizen is and what their rights are. It was designed to prevent blacks from being denied rights such as voting, the right of self-defense not to guarntee that an illegal alien (oops, sorry, they're "undocumented workers" now. What do you call them if they're sucking at the teet of our government and not employed?) bounces across the border, births her child in the US and can't be tossed from the country because her newborn child is a US citizen. You know, we can't disrupt families, it's just so wrong..... I suppose they could all go back to Mom and Dad's country.
Even if CPD weren't short-handed, we can't be everywhere at once and it is the individuals right to defend themselves. Thugs travel in small groups and are the lookout for their next target of opportunity, law abiding citizens are normally by themselves or with their spouses and children. Mom, Dad and 2.2 children are goimng to have a tough time fending off 3 or 4 of these monsters that intend on robbing them or worse. But an armed Mom & Dad, just might be able to hold their own against these young ruffians. Firearms don't have to be shot to fend off a criminal. If the bad guys realize his victim is armed, he moves on to the next unsuspecting citizen. These guys are smart enough to know that if the victim can fight back, it might not be worth the effort to try them.
No shit... Southern idea of Crime Control
I was driving through Tennessee last week, headling on a local paper...
SENATE CLEARS WAY FOR GUNS IN BARS
I could kick myself for not buying a copy.
If you kill one burglar that stopps 300 burglaries!
oh for christ sake more guns have no effect on the murder rate, just as daleys gun ban has noe effect....shit heads r gonna b shit heads no matter what....if an off duty cop can be killed avg joe q citizen will just as easily be killed....arm everyone but hire more cops that is the only guarantee of lowering the homocide numbers.
Anonymous said...
as soon as today!? that's great!
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The decision will most likely be announced on one of the four Mondays of this month.
New Lenox Patroit CCW poll
http://www.newlenoxpatriot.com/SitePage-26244.114133_Home_3.html
Anyone in their right mind; and who has no security, knows you need a gun for protection.
I can picture Shorty trashing his office when the ruling comes down !
Shit-head bails on the Police from a traffic stop in 015... The chase is on and he's dropping dope while he's running. (damn! nobody came along behind the Police to "clean-up"? that's bogus! ;^)
This idiot does a western-roll through a good citizen's window to make good his escape and the good citizen in fear of the riotous entry into his formerly peaceful domicile shot the shit out of the intruder?
Shortshanks no doubt screeched like a banshee and rolled around on the floor biting himself when this showed up in the 24 hour digest of citywide mayhem!
The second castle defense in less than two weeks?
A few more of these before SCOTUS tells shorty to take his gun ban and jump in the Chicago River please!
Or better yet a citizen objecting to being a victim of the white t-shirt hordes overrunning the near north lake front.
A citizen exercising righteous self defense on the public way to terminal effect would be cause for special celebration!
Shorty would have to eat his crow & stfu sandwich ass-first, crust intact, along with all the attendant shit, loud noises and feathers...
Some people will never get it. Yes, more police would be great, but you can not put a cop on every street, (I wish we could) but that will never happen. Police are pushed to hard to do a job with not getting the fair pay for what they do. SO SOME not all should be able to protect them selfs and thier loved ones. (us with CCW's are not the police)(and some sould not even be able to touch a sharp stick)So pull your head out of the sand and see for yourself that if people start fighting back, the bad guy will go away, just like if everyone knows not to speed on a part of the road where cops are always getting the speeders. That word gets out fast. so will the word, don't go thier, you will get shot if you try to break in.
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