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The excerpt identified the relationship between robbery and CCW, not aggregate violent crime.
Fine, if you want to cherry-pick data it is STILL wrong. The robbery rate per 100,000 inhabitants in DC is 658.4. The robbery rate per 100,000 inhabitants in every state of the Union is less than half that of DC.
You can safely conclude that your prior post is completely wrong. Pick any state you like, and they will have a lower violent crime rate than DC which flat out bans all handguns.
Absolutely. Florida is a big example of this. Violent crime took a nosedive after their CCW laws went on the books. Here in Texas, since our CCW law went into effect in 1995, our state population has grown by 20%, but our violent crime has dropped by 19%. That's with numbers from Katrina refugee crimes in 2005-2006.
Florida's murder rate has actually taken a dramatic jump UP in the past couple of years. Why isn't Charlie Crist doing anything about that?
Actually, the murder rate went down in 2005, then dramatically up in 2006. However, the murder rate overall now is lower than it was from 1980-1988. Not sure what the reasons are for 2006's numbers, but murder can involve many other weapons besides guns. I'm referring to violent crime stats overall. Florida's population has exploded since their CCW laws went into effect, going from 12 million people in 1987 to 18 million in 2006--and that's the legal ones. If Florida, like Texas, could get a grip on their immigrant issues, that might help some things, but Dade County has a LONG way to go before they can get any control on their crime rate.
I don't know about biased, but I do know that it isn't true. DC has the most restrictive firearm provisions in the country. Alaska has the least restrictive firearm provisions in the country. According the FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2006, Alaska has a MUCH lower violent crime rate than DC. In fact, DC has the highest violent crime rate in the entire nation, by far.
The violent crime rate per 100,000 inhabitants in Alaska is 688. The violent crime rate per 100,000 inhabitants in DC is 1,508.4. So it would appear that Lott and Mustard were right all along.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2006 (Violent Crime Rate by State) (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_05.html - broken link)
While DC's gun laws are restrictive, Virginia's are not. Almost any one can buy a gun in Virginia and they do. Those guns are then sold illegally in DC and in states like New York. It is not the restrictive gun laws in DC that are the problem. The problem is in how lax the gun laws are in Virginia.
The National Academy of Sciences is a left wing funded organization and it doesn't surprise me at all they disagree with Lott. He has challenged anyone to discredit any of his findings and NO ONE has been able to.
This passage from that page looks especially biased, no?
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The decision to liberalize concealed carry laws by a number of state legislatures was based largely on findings drawn from one study authored by Dr. John Lott and David Mustard. Lott and Mustard claim that greatly easing restrictions on carrying concealed handguns will lead to a large decrease in crime. When first presented, Lott and Mustard's work was met with skepticism in the research community. Now, a growing body of empirical evidence has completely undermined the credibility of their claims.
Perhaps most compelling is the fact that robbery has declined twice as quickly in states with strict licensing or that do not allow concealed carrying at all than in states with lax CCW systems. If carrying concealed weapons reduces crime, it would be expected that the greatest effects would be seen on crimes that most often occur between strangers in public places, such as robbery. However, Lott and Mustard found virtually no beneficial effects from liberalizing the carrying of concealed weapons on robbery. As indicated above, robbery in restrictive CCW states fell twice as fast as in lax CCW states. Furthermore, reanalysis of Lott and Mustard's data by two different teams of researchers revealed that crime overall was just as likely to increase as decrease after states eased their carry laws — a finding which appears to be borne out by the FBI's crime data.
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Sorry but every statemnt in this quote is FALSE and cannot be proven. The FBI stats do NOT reflect their claims. And the "teams of researchers" credibility has never been proven to be valid. in other words: a lot of crap.
Yeah, so am I supposed to be impressed by them or something? Just because they tout themselves as this wonderful organization? As for them having Nobel Peace Prize winners on staff don't make me laugh! This "Prize" has been won by some of the most corrupt people on the planet. The UN and Koffi (oil for food) Annon, Yassar Arafat, Gorbachev,Jimmy Carter (A complete disgrace as a president) The IPCC and AlGore ( A complete fool IMHO).
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