Thursday, March 13, 2008

More Guns = Less Crime

Guns saving lives!?!?  Alert the media!

When sexual assaults started rising in Orlando, Fla., in 1986, police officers noticed women were arming themselves, so they launched a firearms safety course for them. Over the next 12 months, sexual assaults plummeted by 88 percent, burglaries fell by 25 percent and not one of the 2,500 women who took the course fired a gun in a confrontation.

And that, says a new brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court by police officers and prosecutors in a controversial gun-ban dispute, is why gun ownership is important and should be available to individuals in the United States.

The arguments come in an amicus brief submitted by the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, whose spokesman, Ted Deeds, told WND there now are 92 different law enforcement voices speaking together to the Supreme Court in the Heller case.

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The brief notes when the Georgia town of Kennesaw decided to require all residents, with exceptions for conscientious objectors, to keep a firearm at home, home burglaries fell from 66 to 26 to 11 in consecutive years.

In Orlando, the deterrence to criminals who simply knew that their victims may have a gun and may know how to use it and may be willing to do just that had a significant impact, because while Orlando’s rapes were plummeting, assaults were up 5 percent across the state and 7 percent nationally.

The brief cites a study that discovered, based on interviews with felony prisoners in 11 prisons in 10 states, one third of the felons had been “scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim,” and nearly four in 10 had decided against committing a specific crime because they thought the victim might have a gun.

“Seventy-four percent agreed with the statement that ‘One reason burglars avoid houses where people are at home is that they fear being shot,’” the study said.

Hat tip In Jennifer’s Head via Rachel Lucas.

(8) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2051 hrs
Culture + Firearms + Law

  1. People who want guns banned don’t care about the facts. It’s an emotional argument to them, not a rational one.

    Posted by elliot on March 13, 2008 at 2117 hrs


  2. “Seventy-four percent agreed with the statement that ‘One reason burglars avoid houses where people are at home is that they fear being shot,’” the study said.

    And God knows we can’t have burglars being afraid of breaking into home in order to support their “habit” wink

    Posted by Michael J. Cheaney on March 13, 2008 at 2209 hrs


  3. “Gun Control” has absolutely nothing to do with guns and everything to do with control.  If you want graphic evidence-watch this video to the end.

    http://blip.tv/file/313529

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 14, 2008 at 0736 hrs


  4. Kudos for the Orlando police for launching a firearms safety course for those women, very cool of them.

    Posted by Matt on March 14, 2008 at 0856 hrs


  5. Please forward this to our clueless governor, who has vetoed conceal carry laws more often than he combs his hair.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 14, 2008 at 1349 hrs


  6. People who want guns banned don’t care about the facts. It’s an emotional argument to them, not a rational one.

    Exactly…  I’ve pounded my head against a wall trying to logic thru the gun issues with anti-gunners over and over.  They don’t get it.  They’ll never get it.  They don’t WANT to get it.

    Thats why none of them are jumping on this thread.  They only get involved with threads where they can find some toe-hold of refutability.  Questioning the source, questioning the statistics, something…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 14, 2008 at 1355 hrs


  7. They get part of it.  None of them are willing to post signs in front of their homes saying gun free zone.  And Doyle does employ armed bodyguards.

    However their silence on this issue speaks volumes…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 14, 2008 at 1419 hrs


  8. Thanks for the link!

    Always remember-when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

    Posted by Jennifer on March 14, 2008 at 2215 hrs


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