A corollary to this thought,.. the crime rate is always lower in areas where law-abiders can arm themselves easily, and, as you would expect, the crime rate is higher where gun laws make it harder for law-abiders to own guns.  This is not rocket science or opinion,.. this is just the way it works.  Bad guys go for easy victims, they tend to avoid situations where they might get shot.



and the trumpets blare

dunt duh duh duuuuunt!


& reality was spoken aloud,


the crime rate is always lower in areas where law-abiders can arm themselves easily,

"Every one being armed will not prevent gun crimes" You're right, you still have the gangs and dopeheads but I bet the crime rate drops.

If you removed all gun laws nation wide I'll bet crime rates stay nearly the same. Your theory is that since everyone will be armed you'd see a reluctance on the part of criminals to attack someone ... however they now attack people not knowing if they are armed or not. I doubt that will change. Removing all gun laws, wont change the criminals thought that .. .1. There may be no one in the house. 2. We could get in and out while still having the element of surprise. 3. They may still not be armed.

However It will wholly result an increase in people killing each other over a parking spot ... which the ydont now, they just bang each others cars ...
It will result in an increase in accidental shootings.
It will result in an increase in suicides.

BTW the biggest item stolen when you have home break in's - guns. I'd bet that increases.

You wont get a decrease at all in crime ... you get decreases now a days only cos the neighboring city/county/state laws are different.
If some town imposes gun control laws, the criminals in the next county think they stand a better chance finding an unarmed chump next town over. So crime increases in that 1 town. Now there is a siphon effect. If there was no town with a tight gun law, the criminal will just commit the crime in his county.
Cool.
Srinath.

Midnightrider wrote on 07/07/13 at 22:15:04:



Crazies dont care ... gun laws not going to stop any of that, a $100 bullet will, they are first time shooters ... they wont have a criminal record. We may get em with a psych test, but can you imagine the squealing from the gun nuts and NRA when we try to subject people trying to buy a gun to a psych test. Worse yet when one guy who's been rejected by a psych panel from getting a gun cos he's nuts gets killed by someone else that got a gun illegally, can you imagine the screaming then ? I can.

The assumption about parking space murder is that you think they are thinking ... oooo maybe he has a gun, maybe he this or that ... if they did that. it wont be road "rage" it will just be road "anger" ... or road "impoliteness" they now bash each others cars ... one person could still be armed and shoot the other ...

States with gun laws have gun crimes cos they suck them from the neighboring states that dont have gun laws. If we had the same laws all the way across, there wont be any commuting crimnials ... they will be resident criminals instead. Today I'm gonna go to charlotte rob a convenience store and drive back to my hood ... will just be, today I'll rob a convenience store in belmont and save driving to charlotte cos those guys are as armed as belmont.

More gun laws a state has, while the next state has fewer ... that leaves honest people in that state sitting ducks. AKA the SC and TX effect. People buy in SC in legit stores with a legit ID, and since SC throws them away after the sale, they promptly sell it to their "associates" who drive em to NYC or DC and supply the criminals there.
That leaves the Good people in DC and NYC (are there any left ? I thought its all white collar criminals in both places) vulnerable to being killed by a SC gun.

Regional Gun laws dont work so well ... cos roads do. Since roads are nationwide - so should gun laws.
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Srinath.

srinath wrote on 07/08/13 at 08:53:06:




More gun laws a state has, while the next state has fewer ... that leaves honest people in that state sitting ducks.


so, how about all of them use the laws the ones with the lowest crime rates use?

Actually, what we need is to build big walls around NYC, Newark, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Los Angeles, Frisco, Seattle... and hit each one with fuel air devices until even the mole people are gone.

Followed by making violent crimes against children and the elderly capital offenses, sentence to be carried out immediately upon conviction, no appeals, no vacations at the loony bin on the tax payer's dime...

Then, and only then, consider modifying the existing federal gun laws. AFTER making sure there are no more traitors to the American way of life in any political, educational, media format, etc...

As a nation, the USA has devolved to the level of the Wiemar Republic, blended with the graft, sloth, greed and indifference endemic to Africa and the Middle East...

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 07/08/13 at 13:46:51:



Lets try common sense instead of the Righty RMoney Ride some more ...

I see tighter gun laws followed by reduction in crime in the surrounding area over and over and over, in the name of the Big C and lets try freedom of not having armed criminals and controlling the people and NRA pushing their garbage for their masters in the name of the second amendment by arming criminals.

Cool.
Srinath.

JOG, the cities listed are all full of nanny state commies, who'd miss them?