... area. Sandy hook, Virginia Tech, Columbine all could've ended earlier and more lives could've been saved if someone there had a concealed handgun. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology by Gary Kleck PhD, showed that when someone draws a concealed gun in self-defense, the criminal simply retreats 55.5 % of the time. The criminal will normally leave the scene and ... ...
... 2000, Australian authorities had confiscated some 660,000 privately owned firearms for destruction. Once again, gun control is moving hand-in-hand with a rise in crime. The Australian Institute of Criminology reports that between 1996 and 1998 assaults rose 16 percent, armed robberies rose 73 percent, and unlawful entries rose eight percent. Is this is the right answer to guns? I"ll ... ...
... -defense does not occur often enough to warrant owning guns for that person. This may seem to be a reasonable argument, until you look at the facts. In John Conklins book, Criminology it shows a nationwide survey "that citizens use firearms in self-defense against crime 2.1 to 2.5 million times each year, and they use handguns in 1.5 to 1.9 million of those cases." "In comparison ... ...
... %, assault is up 130%, attempted murder is up 117%, and sexual assault is up 112%. And these figures come from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the Australian Institution of Criminology. One might ask what was going on in Australia before the 1995 ban of firearms. It's quite fascinating. Firearm related homicides did drop 66%, and firearm related deaths (non homicide ... ...
... -defense does not occur often enough to warrant owning guns for that person. This may seem to be a reasonable argument, until you look at the facts. In John Conklins book, Criminology it shows a nationwide survey "that citizens use firearms in self-defense against crime 2.1 to 2.5 million times each year, and they use handguns in 1.5 to 1.9 million of those cases." "In comparison ... ...
