Harvard University Study Reveals Astonishing Link Between Firearms, Crime, and Gun Control

Yet again, more evidence that proves politicians who muck-up our 2nd Amendment, then more people end up being killed...

There is an astonishing link between

• firearms

• crime

• gun control

According to a study in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy,
which cites the Centers for Disease Control,
the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and
the United Nations International Study on Firearms Regulation…

the more guns a nation has,
the less criminal activity it will experience.

In other words, more firearms equates tp less crime, concludes the virtually unpublicized research report by attorney Don B. Kates and Dr. Gary Mauser.

BUT The Key Is:

The Firearms Are In The Hands Of Private Citizens

U.S. Gun Facts

During the past 20 years, gun sales have absolutely exploded, but homicides with firearms are down 39% during that time, and “other crimes with firearms” are down 69%.

Almost every mass shooting that has occurred in the United States since 1950 has taken place in a state with strict gun control laws.

With just one exception, every public mass shooting in the USA since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are banned from carrying guns.

The United States is Number 1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people.

The violent crime rate in the United States fell from 757.7 per 100,000 in 1992 to 386.3 per 100,000 in 2011.

During that same period, the murder rate fell from 9.3 per 100,000 to 4.7 per 100,000.

Overall, guns in the United States are used 80 times more often
to prevent crime than they are to take lives.

U.K. Gun Facts

Despite the very strict ban on guns in the UK, the overall rate of violent crime in the UK is about 4 times higher than it is in the United States.

In one recent year, there were 2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK — in the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year.

Does anyone want to be more like the UK?

The UK has approximately 125% more rape victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.

The UK has the 4th highest burglary rate in the EU and the 2nd highest overall crime rate in the EU.

Gun Control Facts

Down in Australia, gun murders increased by about 19%, and armed robberies increased by about 69% after a gun ban was instituted.

The city of Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States.

So has this reduced crime?

The murder rate in Chicago was about 17% higher in 2012 than it was in 2011, and Chicago is now considered to be “the deadliest global city,”

After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law requiring every home to have a gun, the crime rate dropped by more than 50% during the next 23 years and there was an 89% decline in burglaries.

Global Gun Facts

According to Gun Owners of America, the governments of the world slaughtered more than 170 million of their people during the 20th century.

The vast majority of those people had been disarmed by their governments.

Why?

It wasn’t to stop crime…

Discover more about this study here: Harvard University Study Reveals Astonishing Link Between Firearms, Crime, and Gun Control [archive]

The original study was published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy: Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence By Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser PDF download

originally published 12-October-2015 in decisiveliberty.news [archive]

Gun Ownership 2023

^^^ see interactive map

The 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution significantly limits the federal government’s ability to regulate guns in the United States.

The 10th Amendment, which reserves powers not granted to the federal government to the state governments, means that gun rules such as where and when you can carry in public, who can purchase guns, and what types of guns and features are legal for purchase are left to the States.

As a result, gun cultures and statistics can vary widely across America’s many states and territories.

sources

American Gun Facts
beliefnet.com
Harvard School of Public Health