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Call it the Obama effect. The murder rate dropped 7.4 percent nationwide last year, and the administration can enjoy some of the credit – but not for the reason you might think. Mr. Obama’s election sparked a surge in gun sales, and, consequently, crime rates have plummeted.
In November 2008, a total of 450,000 more people purchased firearms than had bought them in November 2007. This is a more than 10-fold increase, compared with the change in sales from November 2007 over November 2006, which was only about 35,000. The average year-to-year increase in monthly sales in the past decade averaged just 21,000.
The long lines at the local gun stores continued well beyond the presidential election. From November 2008 to October 2009, almost 2.5 million more people bought guns than had done so in the preceding 12 months. It is likely that the total number of guns sold was much higher, as the National Instant Criminal Background Check System only reports the number of purchasers, not how many weapons were purchased.
The last time the murder rate dropped at this rate, it was 1999, and Bill Clinton was president. In the wake of Columbine, those who feared further curtailment of their Second Amendment rights flocked to gun stores, and sales soared. Rightly so, considering the likes of deputy domestic policy adviser Elena Kagan worked behind the scenes of the Clinton White House, advocating trigger locks and more burdensome gun-control measures.
The connection between firearm ownership and safer streets is simple and direct. Criminals realize that they face far greater risks when members of the public have the tools they need to defend themselves. On the other hand, criminals see greater opportunities when the right to self-defense is restricted. Americans living in the District of Columbia and Chicago have seen this phenomenon firsthand – murder rates jumped in both cities after strict gun-control measures took effect. In the year that followed the Supreme Court’s overturning of Washington’s ownership ban and trigger-lock laws, murder rates plunged 25 percent.
If the Supreme Court strikes down the Chicago gun ban this month, Americans may get to see yet again that more guns mean less crime.
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Apparently you’ll be able to defend yourselves now when a criminal enters your home…
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Householders who confront burglars are to be given greater rights to defend their families and homes. The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, is looking at increasing legal protection for people who use force to fight off intruders.
The government is eager to “ensure that people have the protection they need when they defend themselves against intruders”, a ministry of justice source told the Observer.
Clarke will also examine the idea of increased legal protection for have-a-go heroes and passersby willing to “apprehend criminals”. The move follows high-profile cases in which householders were given jail sentences after attacking burglars.
Last year Munir Hussain was jailed for using a cricket bat to beat a man who had broken into his home and threatened his family with a knife. Hussain was jailed for two and a half years for causing grievous bodily harm with intent, but was released after a public outcry.
The plan has brought warnings from senior police officers, however, who believe a change in the law could promote vigilantism and could also be exploited to provide excuses for those involved in assault cases.
“We could start seeing people being dragged from the streets into houses or stories made up about them trying to break in,” said Simon Reed, vice-chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales. “We need to be very careful how the law is brought up on this because we certainly would not like people to be seen saying, ‘We can do this and get away with it’.”
The issue of what constitutes reasonable force when defending against intruders has been a thorny issue for the government since Tony Martin, a Norfolk farmer, was jailed for killing a teenage intruder. Martin shot 16-year-old burglar Fred Burras in the back at his remote Norfolk farm in 1999. He was initially given a life sentence for murder but, on appeal, this was changed to a conviction for manslaughter for which he served three years in prison. Martin’s case provoked a fierce debate over the right of homeowners to defend themselves and their property, and several Tory MPs tabled attempts to change the law.
The ministry of justice is to carry out a review of the law in such cases and will look at increased legal protection for members of the public willing to “apprehend criminals”. A spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said it was waiting for further details of the government’s so-called Good Samaritan law. The central issue on any proposed change to the law is likely to focus on the use of proportionate force, as against allowing homeowners to use any means necessary to defend their homes.
Reed said the intention to change the law might be populist, but was unnecessary. “The law has been adequate for 40-odd years about reasonable force. Maybe we should just review prosecution policy before we start changing the law. Maybe what’s changed is that the Crown Prosecution Service are far keener to prosecute people in circumstances where a few years ago we would have accepted that they were defending themselves,” he said.
Police advice on whether the public should step in to help a victim has never been clear. The Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has said: “People have got to make a reasonable judgment but to actively discourage them from being responsible citizens is wrong.”
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I think it’s about time this bigoted hag retired and STFU!
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From Kurt Hofmann:
That brings us nicely to MexiData‘s “An Inside Look at Mexican Guns and Arms Trafficking.” Quoting the Mexico City newspaper El Universal, it tells us about a Mexican “crime gun” source that Calderón, the Brady Campaign, the Violence Policy Center, and others would like us not to know about, because it’s obvious that no combination of restrictions on American civilians can do anything about it.
A percentage of the weapons, the seller said, come from Mexico via Ministry of Defense personnel who provide [them] in part from weapons seized in raids, or stolen from the ministry’s own arsenal.
Corruption in the Mexican government? I’m shocked, I tell you–shocked!
Go read more about it at the link above, it’s well worth a couple minutes of your time.
It was bound to happen sooner or later:
A backpacker shot and killed a grizzly bear with a handgun Friday in Denali National Park. This is the first known instance of a visitor killing a bear in the wilderness area.
The shooting happened Friday evening, about 35 miles from park headquarters at the west end of Igloo Canyon. A backpacker drew a .45-caliber pistol when he reportedly saw a bear charge his female hiking partner.
The man fired nine rounds at the bear. He told a park ranger the animal stopped and walked into the brush. The pair reported the shooting to park rangers, who found the dead bear Saturday about 100 feet from the shooting site.
The shooting is under investigation by park rangers and biologists.
“So what this person was doing something legally in terms of carrying the weapon,” said the park’s public information officer, Kris Fister. “What is still not legal — and this has been a federal regulation for a long time — is the use of the weapon, and so we are looking, again, at whether that shooting was justified.”
A new federal law that went into effect in February allows visitors to carry handguns in national parks. Fister says this shooting could set a precedent for similar incidents in other national parks.
