Monday - March 28, 2005

Guns, Cops, Criminals and Political Correctness

Hey, this is a great piece by John Lott.  Given that we’ve had three attacks by sick-os in the past several weeks, all using guns, we can expect that the gun grabbers on the left will be screaming for more gun restrictions.

Yet Mr. Lott makes some great observations.

The major factor determining success is the relative strengths and sizes of the criminal and officer. In particular, when officer strength and size requirements are reduced because of affirmative action, each one-percent increase in the number of female officers increases the number of assaults on police by 15 to 19 percent.

That’s what political correctness with police got you in Atlanta.

All three attacks took place in areas where gun possession by those who did the attack as well as civilians generally was already banned — so-called “gun-free safe zones.”

Yep, as he said, it’s like you putting a big sign in front of your house saying your home is a “gun-free zone.” How long before you’re cleaned out?  or killed?

He also found that:

when states passed right-to-carry laws, these attacks fell by 60 percent. Deaths and injuries from multiple-victim public shootings fell on average by 78 percent.

more than two million times each year that Americans use guns defensively are never discussed — even though this is five times as often as the 450,000 times that guns are used to commit crimes over the last couple of years.

This is good stuff.  Read it.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 03/28/2005 at 06:15 AM   
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