Crime Decreases As Numbers of Gun Owners Rise

@parados,

parados wrote:

Do I dispute your bait and switch?
I ignored it because of what it is.

I think we have a failure to communicate.

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@parados,

parados wrote:

Here are 12 law enforcement officers killed by CCW holders
www.vpc.org/fact_sht/ccwlawenforcement.pdf

WHAT is your point ?

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@OmSigDAVID,

I think the only failure is in I see no reason to let you change the subject from

Crime decreases as numbers of Gun owners rise

to

Crime didn't become rampant because of the rise in gun owners

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@parados,

parados wrote:

I think the only failure is in I see no reason to let you change the subject from

Crime decreases as numbers of Gun owners rise

to

Crime didn't become rampant because of the rise in gun owners

One is contained within the other.
I asked u if u disputed it, and u failed to respond.

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@OmSigDAVID,

No, one is NOT contained in the other.

You made a claim that more guns reduced crime. That ONLY means that more guns reduce crime. There are several different things that can happen to make your statement false. You are trying to argue that if the opposite extreme is false then your statement must be true. That is false logic David. Surely you can see that.

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@parados,

parados wrote:

No, one is NOT contained in the other.

You made a claim that more guns reduced crime. That ONLY means that more guns reduce crime. There are several different things that can happen to make your statement false. You are trying to argue that if the opposite extreme is false then your statement must be true. That is false logic David. Surely you can see that.

I see your point.
In the face of it, I wish that I had crafted my headline differently.
One statement expresses the principle less aggressively than the other.

I sure wish that Lott, or any freedom-loving competent statistician,
were in this conversation. I am not doing a very good job of representing the pro-freedom position.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

The simple fact is that statistics don't support more guns less crime. Nor do they support more guns equals carnage.

As the rebuttal to Lott shows, CCW can be shown to have an effect or not depending on which factors you want to adjust for.

Quote:

Indeed, when the flawed instruments are dropped
in lines 5 and 6, the estimated effect on crime of shall-issue law adoption is
never significantly different from zero. Accordingly, the evidence from 2SLS
estimation, in our view, offers no support for the more guns, less crime
hypothesis.75

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[The Gun owners of New York were busy fighting crime yesterday.

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@OmSigDAVID,

You wrote,

Quote:

John Lott is making the point
that altho leftists, those who wish to suppress
the right to personal defense from predatory violence,

If you ever bother to look at statistics of gun violence by country, you'll see that the US is way ahead of all other countries.

Not only that, but none of the statistics show the cost of increased health care based on gun violence. "All righties" ignore this very important issue of health care costs by gun violence. Add to that the number of crimes committed by guns that includes robbery, killing of children and family members, and the suffering and anguish of the family members who lose loved ones through gun violence.

You suffer from myopia. The second amendment was written at a time when a national malitia made sense. We now have the most powerful military in the world where a domestic malitia doesn't make any sense.

The idea that a gun will protect the owner from crime is laughable at best; it only increases gun violence as proven by the statistics.

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@33export,

33export wrote:

[The Gun owners of New York were busy fighting crime yesterday.

Criminals rarely take a day off... I just wish the victims had a fighting chance to defend themselves.

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@H2O MAN,

And I wish those kids in Conn had a fighting chance to living.

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@cicerone imposter,

Having a few teachers and staff trained and armed to defend themselves and the kids
may have given everyone a fighting chance, but politicians decided to take this God
given right that's protected by our constitution away from them. Shame on the politicians
responsible for doing this, shame on all politicians that don't support our constitution.

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@H2O MAN,

I missed where God gave us gun rights.

can you please point me to that verse?

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@Rockhead,

The right to defend ourselves and others, did you miss that?

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@H2O MAN,

It goes something like this; "thou shalt not kill."

What do you own that's worth a human life?

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@Rockhead,

Rockhead wrote:

I missed where God gave us gun rights.

can you please point me to that verse?

Jesus said that if u don't have a sword,
u better buy one. Luke 22:36
We can extrapolate the principle to handguns.

Most. if not all, creatures on Earth have the means
of self defense; ours is our intellect and its fruits.

David

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Thou shalt not kill unless it's in self defense.

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@cicerone imposter,

cicerone imposter wrote:

And I wish those kids in Conn had a fighting chance to living.

In furtherance of that philosophy,
I armed myself with a. .38 Smith & Wesson revolver at age 8.
I took it everywhere.

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@H2O MAN,

H2O MAN wrote:

Thou shalt not kill unless it's in self defense.

Harvesting food is OK.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

H2O MAN wrote:

Thou shalt not kill unless it's in self defense.

Harvesting food is OK.

And it's usually not considered a criminal act.

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