New Study Proves No Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Violence

I am always amused (well sometimes just irritated) by the predictability of those on the Left who are seeking some means, fair or foul, to side-step the most important of our God given rights, that of self-protection, by attempting to ignore, bypass or finesse the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution.

Here we have an article which by implication says that Virginia gun sales (among other states) are responsible for the sky-high murder rates in our cities with the tightest gun laws...a murder rate, I might add, that makes living in New York or Washington D.C. more hazardous than serving on the frontlines in Iraq.

In Study Of Gun Traffic, Va. Stands Out

By Allison Klein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 21, 2007; Page A01

Law enforcement authorities traced more than 10,000 guns recovered in Virginia, Maryland and the District last year -- and nearly half came from Virginia, according to federal data released yesterday.

Virginia also was among the top sources of guns recovered by authorities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and South Carolina, the data show. In New York, more recovered guns came from Virginia than from any other outside state -- roughly one of 11 traced.

"Somebody coined I-95 'the iron pipeline,' " said Mike Campbell, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which released the report yesterday. "There's a lot of traffic moving up and down 95."

The ATF gathered information from police agencies across the country and compiled state-by-state reports detailing types of offenses and where firearms originated. The ATF traces nearly 300,000 guns a year to determine where they were sold to customers.

Blah, blah, blah, blah this is the same old song being sung by the same old uninformed, paranoid, Liberal Mainstream Media. The topic of this article is so irrelevent as to be absurd.

Liberals seem to live in constant and irrational fear of their fellow law-abiding gun-toting citizens. They have no problem with the government, both local and federal, having a monopoly on gun ownership and they ususally cite the same old thoroughly debunked studies they have been using for decades to beat we legitimate gun owners over the head.

Well the truth is out now in this new exhaustive study by Don Kates, a Yale-educated attorney and retired professor at Stanford Law School and Gary Mauser, a Canadian university professor and author. Their study which compared different nations, populations groups, and types of violence (including homicide and suicide) throughout recorded history. They have completely debunked the old claims, made by those who seek to restrict our right to gun ownership.

This exhaustive examination of the data suggests that there is little or no relationship between gun ownership and the level of violence within a given society. What little relationship that can be gleaned from the data suggests a slight edge to the concept that more guns equates to less violence, not more.

This is by far the most exhaustive study to have been performed on this subject and is sure to draw fire (no pun intended) from the demogogues and pedagogues who continually spew disinformation through our Left-wing, anti-gun press.

Here is a link directly to the study:

Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International Evidence.

Our Freedoms are a legacy left by men who had a closer and better grasp of what it can be like living under an oppressive and all too powerful government. Perhaps it's time we take those rights seriously, before those on the Left strip them from us.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

What do you think?

To leave your opinion click on the word "COMMENT(S)" below