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There are very few dangerous guns. There are a lot of dangerous people. Please remember that when somebody slashes you with a knife and takes your wallet. Guns are great equalizers, and as I am too old to get in a knife fight with some young thug, I would prefer to avoid him in the first place, but if necessary, I would prefer he brought a knife to a gunfight.
I have to ask how many of you that would restrict weapons have ever been in a real fight? I mean a fight where losing might mean you were severely injured or dead?
Alaska's issue's are mostly climate related. It's dark for months at a time, people congregate indoors and drink the weeks away. This is also very prevalent in the native people as well. Alaska truely is different than any other state.
And here is a fun picture for you, showing gun ownership and crime
got anything that is actually considered data not from the biased brady gun control group?
I trust brady the same amount that you trust the NRA. but at least I read the brady site, as the best way to know your enemy is to learn about them. you obviously dont know that yet.
want to bet that there are more murders every year in chicago than there are in alaska?
Everytime there's a discussion about violence, republicans and conservatives have just one and onlyargument: Chicago.
Do you other arguments
Ok, do you realize that the thread was about States' murder rate?
Also, do you understand the difference between murder rate and number of homicides?
Anyway, if I was living in one of those States (thanks God I don't) I would be a little concerned about their high crime rates, rather than blathering BS about the Windy City... there are several cities in such states more violent than Chicago: never heard of New Orleans?
Alaska scores dead last in gun safety as scored by the Brady Campaign.
The study states that Alaska had the worst gun death rate in the nation.
It has more than double the average rate of suicide.
It has the highest gun homicide rate among children age 0 to 17, three times greater than the national average, and the 12th worst homicide rate among women.
More law-enforcement officers are killed by guns than in all but two other states.
The top 10 gun-friendly states:
1. Alaska
2. Arizona
3. Florida
4. Idaho
5. Kentucky
6. Montana
7. New Mexico
8. Texas
9. Utah
10. Wyoming
Only 3 states overlap between states with high gun violence and the fewest restrictive gun laws. It has nothing to do with the ease of acquiring guns, but the demographics of those states. As was stated before, the most gun-violent states have the highest concentrations of Blacks and Hispanics, who are statistically more likely to commit crime with guns or belong to a gang, which explains this correlation.
And pointing this out now makes me racist, but it's simply an uncomfortable fact.
Define "gun-friendly." Do you have a link for that?
The study I cited did not use only gun homicide data.. They had 10 indicators of gun violence:
The data analyzed in this report relate to the following 10 indicators of gun violence:
Overall firearm deaths in 2010
Overall firearm deaths from 2001 through 2010
Firearm homicides in 2010
Firearm suicides in 2010
Firearm homicides among women from 2001 through 2010
Firearm deaths among children ages 0 to 17, from 2001 through 2010
Law-enforcement agents feloniously killed with a firearm from 2002 through 2011
Aggravated assaults with a firearm in 2011
Crime-gun export rates in 2009
Percentage of crime guns with a short “time to crime” in 2009
There are very few dangerous guns. There are a lot of dangerous people. Please remember that when somebody slashes you with a knife and takes your wallet. Guns are great equalizers, and as I am too old to get in a knife fight with some young thug, I would prefer to avoid him in the first place, but if necessary, I would prefer he brought a knife to a gunfight.
I have to ask how many of you that would restrict weapons have ever been in a real fight? I mean a fight where losing might mean you were severely injured or dead?
Of course if everyone carried a gun there would be utopia, right?
Alaska's issue's are mostly climate related. It's dark for months at a time, people congregate indoors and drink the weeks away. This is also very prevalent in the native people as well. Alaska truely is different than any other state.
And here is a fun picture for you, showing gun ownership and crime
I wonder why Alaska has the highest rate of gun homicide in the entire nation for children aged 0 to 19.
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