Can anyone show me hard facts that show gun control lowers violent crime?

Question

I made no statements here I am just asking for some facts. So far I see none.

VPOC I asked for facts not opinions.

Answer 1

it is so stupid to think controling guns will lower violent crimes. if that is the main objective to controll guns then i bet these decision makers eat their soup with a fork. we always seem to come up with wrong solutions. if we really care for our people and want to make it safer for them then we should take the profit out of drugs. that simple. countries that have done so have very little crime and their prisons are vacant.we keep making excuses that to legalize drugs , we'll encourage it and drug abuse will be higher. it is for sure not true with alcohol. it is crazy not to do so when the facts are there right in front of our face. it is a conspiracy!

Answer 2

Umm, no not really.

Personally, though I tend to side with the left more on issues I don't like gun control. The constitution says that I can have a rifle and state laws say that I can hunt with it during certain times of the year if I get a license, buy tags do all of that other jazz. I follow the laws, I don't run around killing people and stealing things and I have not been convicted of a felony and I have been trained in gun safety so I have a right to own a firearm. It is a right that I intend to vote to defend should the issue ever come up.

Personally, I really like hunting and I like knowing that if someone breaks into my house that I have a rifle in my closet ready to end their crime spree.

The only gun control I would support is not allowing people who have been imprisoned to own a gun and maybe restricting some of the higher caliber guns, maybe.

Answer 3

I think technology will eventually solve the problem of guns and crime. The big problem with guns is the fact that most crimes are committed with stolen guns. There is a new technology coming onto the market where a handgun owner gets a ring with the gun. This ring activates the gun much like the remote you use for your car alarm. Without the ring, the weapon is useless.

Answer 4

Well, I did find an interesting fact. From 1987-1996, the National handgun murder rate increased 24%. While Florida began allowing conceal/carry to be legal in 1987, the hundgun murder rate dropped 41% in Florida during that same period.
What really bums me out is I'm in Wisconsin, who with ILL are the only two states to still have a ban on CCW. Naturally, our crime rates are going up. That sucks. Matter of fact, it's a felony in Cook Co-Chicago.
Yes, I'm a handgun owner. Not an NRA member and a little liberal. I mainly purchased it for target shooting and plinking, but if needed for personal protection at home,at least I'll have it. I also decided to get one before they imposed more limits on what you can legally get here.I know my handgun would be on the list. (May have to do with the 16 or 32rd capacity...LOL)
Anyway, that source has a lot more info in there if you want to take a look. Thanks

And btw, freedom of erotica HAS significantly lowered sex crimes in Denmark and Sweden. Good comparison there.

One other thing for perspective.....I was driving a Brit to the airport and he was in awe of all the deer being transported. It was deer hunting season so we wound up in a gun discussion. When I mentioned how few shooting murders there were in Britain, he naturally agreed. But then mentioned "There are a LOT of stabbings however!"

Answer 5

Everywhere else in the world, where guns are controlled, crime levels are much lower than in the US. And it's not just guns by themselves. It's the whole Wild West culture. Look at the movies, video games and rap music that are the most popular today. No guns, no death- no fun. Even little kids know that.
If people are not violent only out of fear from the other guy with the bigger gun, then God help us.

In Canada, where gun laws were introduced in 1991 and 1995, the number of gun deaths has reached a 30-year low.

When civilian handguns in the UK were banned, bought back from their owners and destroyed, the following year Scotland recorded a 17% drop in all firearm-related offences. The British Home Office reported that in the nine months following the handgun ban, firearm-related offences in England and Wales dropped by 13%.
A British citizen is still 50 times less likely to be a victim of gun homicide than an American.
In 2002 in the U.S., 1,202 women were killed by their intimate partners, accounting for 30% of all murders of women. 58% were killed by intimate partners using guns.
Approximately 9 children are killed by people discharging firearms every day across the US. This statistic is seldom accompanied by a differentiation of those children killed by individuals from unintentional discharges and stray bullets.
A significant number of gun related deaths occur through suicide.

Answer 6

I'm just curious about who exactly would have guns if there was gun control, well, other than cops and criminals....and such power can only make the cops become criminals. We'd be very naive to think criminals go through legal channels to buy guns, regardless of the controls in place.
SO, I'm pretty sure there's no proof. BUT I can guarantee if controls were more relaxed, people could defend themselves from criminals out there. Look at Virginia Tech, just one teacher who was deputized could have saved a lot of lives. SUCH A SHAME

Answer 7

They're not. In fact, Israel has the same gun laws we do and their crime rates are very low. The numbers of children killed by guns in house is a myth. Very low number of such incidents actually occur.

Answer 8

No. Gun control laws are feel good legislation written up and passed as a reaction to a tragedy. Gun control laws do not prevent crimes.

Answer 9

Britain has probably one of the tightest gun laws in the world . It works.
For example: In 2005 the US suffered 14,860 homicides by firearm.
For the same period the UK had 32. And that was a bad year.

For those who say "It's not guns that kill people. People do." I think the gun helps. I mean, shouting *bang* at someone isn't going to do that much.

Answer 10

The best documentation I am aware of a book title "More guns and less crime"
I was surpised at his results and no he is not a member of the NRA.