PA Bill Number: SB945
Title: Consolidating the act of August 9, 1955 (P.L.323, No.130), known as The County Code; and making repeals.
Description: Consolidating the act of August 9, 1955 (P.L.323, No.130), known as The County Code; and making repeals. ...
Last Action: Third consideration and final passage (199-0)
Last Action Date: Apr 17, 2024
Here are 8 stubborn facts on gun violence in America from the Heritage Foundation :: 05/17/2019
These are 8 facts that eviscerate the usual Leftist mendacity on the common sense human right of self-defense.
The Heritage Foundation recently produced a well-sourced list of 8 facts on gun violence that will serve to demolish the usual lies promulgated by the Liberty grabber Left in trying to deprive the people of their basic human right of self-defence.
This is an excerpt of the list with a few pertinent facts and links for each, follow this link to obtain the full story.
Are there ways to reduce gun violence and school shootings? Yes, but only after objectively assessing the facts and working collaboratively to fashion commonsense solutions.
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1. Violent crime is down and has been on the decline for decades.
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, violent crime has been declining steadily since the early 1990s.
The 2011 homicide rate was almost half https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/index.html of the rate in 1991, and according to the Pew Research Center, the 2013 gun-related death rate was half of the rate in 1993.
2. The principal public safety concerns with respect to guns are suicides and illegally owned handguns, not mass shootings.
According to the Pew Research Center, almost two-thirds of America’s annual gun deaths are suicides. Since 1981, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began publishing data, gun suicides have outnumbered gun homicides. In 2010 alone, 19,392 Americans used guns to kill themselves.
Most gun-related crimes are carried out with illegally owned firearms —as much as 80 percent according to some estimates.
3. A small number of factors significantly increase the likelihood that a person will be a victim of a gun-related homicide.
4. Gun-related murders are carried out by a predictable pool of people.
5. Higher rates of gun ownership are not associated with higher rates of violent crime.
Higher rates of concealed carry permit holders are even more strongly associated with reduction in violent crime than are right-to-carry states. The probable reason for this is that right-to-carry studies often include “open carry” states, which have not been shown to correlate with more people actually carrying or even owning firearms. Rates of concealed carry permit holders are better indicators of the number of people who actually possess and carry firearms within a given population.
6. There is no clear relationship between strict gun control legislation and homicide or violent crime rates.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence ironically makes this clear with its ratings for states based on gun laws. “Gun freedom” states that score poorly, like New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, and Oregon, have some of the lowest homicide rates. Conversely, “gun control-loving” states that received high scores, like Maryland and Illinois, experience some of the nation’s highest homicide rates.
Great Britain has some of the strictest gun control laws in the developed world, but the violent crime rate for homicide, rape, burglary, and aggravated assault is much higher than that in the U.S.
7. Legally owned firearms are used for lawful purposes much more often than they are used to commit crimes or suicide.
In 2013, President Barack Obama ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess existing research on gun violence. The report, compiled by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, found (among other things) that firearms are used defensively hundreds of thousands of times every year.
According to the CDC, “self-defense can be an important crime deterrent.” Recent CDC reports acknowledge that studies directly assessing the effect of actual defensive uses of guns have found “consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.”
AR-15s have been used to save lives on many occasions
8. Concealed carry permit holders are not the problem, but they may be part of the solution.
Regression estimates show a significant association between increased permit ownership and a drop in murder and violent crime rates. Each percentage point increase in rates of permit-holding is associated with a roughly 2.5 percent drop in the murder rate.
Concealed carry permit holders are often “the good guy with a gun,” even though they rarely receive the attention of the national media. Concealed carry permit holders were credited with saving multiple lives
Our Take.
The Left’s socialist national agenda is a house of cards based on a foundation of lies and false presumptions. Their incessant obsession with depriving the people of the right of self-defense is no exception. This is why the work of the Heritage foundation and others is so important in pulling together these facts to instantly counter Leftist FEELings – Frequently Encountered Emotional Lies. Please be sure to bookmark these facts for future use in the defense of Liberty. We can be assured that they will be needed at everyone’s fingertips for the near future.
https://noqreport.com/2019/05/16/8-stubborn-facts-gun-violence-america-heritage-foundation/
