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Sunday, October 19, 2008
More Gun Totin' Facts
Scott Dagonstino, a contributor to Xtra magazine mentioned concealed carry weapons in this past week's issue - unfortunately, not positively. My response to Xtra is posted below:
I think it is Scott Dagonstino who lives in a Hollywood fantasy with his view towards firearms in his article “Open Season on Homos”- where he referred to my discussion of concealed-carry weapons permits. I couldn’t help but notice the irony of the headline of an article in the same Xtra issue, “Hate crimes laws ineffective – Sentences are no deterrent to bashers”. So there we have it, reliance on government to protect our community does not work.
I would like Scott to put aside his Hollywood images, as well as his emotions and look at the facts of allowing carry concealed weapons (CCW) permits and how they are a proven deterrent to criminals:
After passing their concealed carry law, Florida's homicide rate fell from 36% above the national average to 4% below, and remains below the national average. In Texas, murder rates fell 50% faster than the national average in the year after their concealed carry law passed. Rape rates fell 93% faster in the first year after enactment, and 500% faster in the second. Assaults fell 250% faster in the second year. In fact as the number of firearms owned by citizens has been increasing steadily since 1970, the overall rate of homicides and suicides has not risen. Crime has decreased faster in the 47 states that have CCW permits.
David Miller is advocating a citywide gun ban, and petitioning for a nationwide gun-ban. Let us look at what would happen if that became a reality:
Washington D.C. has essentially banned gun ownership since 1976 and has a murder rate of 56.9 per 100,000. Across the river in Arlington, Virginia, gun ownership is less restricted. There, the murder rate is just 1.6 per 100,000, less than three percent of the Washington, D.C. rate. In 1968, the U.K. passed laws that reduced the number of licensed firearm owners, and thus reduced firearm availability. Their homicide rate has steady risen since then. Ironically, firearm use in crimes has doubled in the decade after the U.K. banned handguns. Australia and New Zealand have reduce restrictions on firearms after crimes when up. An unarmed population is a helpless population.
If self-anointed GBLT leaders and activists are serious about reducing hate crimes, discussing CCW permits should be on the table for discussion. CCW laws prevent 2.5 millions crimes in the U.S. every year. Every day 550 rapes, 1,100 murders and 5,200 other violent crimes are prevented by just showing a gun. In less than 0.9% of these instances is a gun actually fired. The facts speak for themselves, like the slogan for the Pink Pistols - armed gays don’t get bashed. When will these leaders put their emotions and far-left agenda to the side, and put their GBLT community first?
Sincerely,
Chris Reid
"Controversial" former Toronto Centre
Conservative Party Candidate
Posted by Chris Reid on October 19, 2008 in Crime | Permalink
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Excellent article and spot on, Chris. The anti-gun crowd are ruled by emotion rather than facts and reason, so I doubt that presenting them with documented evidence will change anything. It is impossible to reason with hysteria.
Posted by: Alain | 2008-10-19 12:58:22 PM
If Toronto really wants to solve its gun problem, then more whites will have to die. The Jane Creba case proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Toronto is a racist city populated by racist people. The white population just does not care when non-whites are victims of crime, but overreact like banshees when one of their own is harmed. I argue that the problem could be resolved only if the trend were reversed. I'm not optimistic. Face it, Toronto and Ontario have doomed themselves to oblivion. I'll bring popcorn to watch them destroy themselves. It'll be fun.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2008-10-19 1:54:39 PM
If Toronto really wants to solve its gun problem, then more whites will have to die.
Posted by: Zebulon Punk | 19-Oct-08 1:54:39 PM
Toronto's murder / crime problems could be largely solved by two measures. First, deport immigrants that commit crime, any crime. Second, bring back the death penalty. In both cased the majority of those being deported or swinging from the end of a noose will be the Punk's brotha's.
Posted by: The Stig | 2008-10-19 2:09:58 PM
Nah I like my way better. It's fairer.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2008-10-19 2:30:46 PM
"Washington D.C. has essentially banned gun ownership since 1976 and has a murder rate of 56.9 per 100,000. Across the river in Arlington, Virginia, gun ownership is less restricted. There, the murder rate is just 1.6 per 100,000"
If I may interject that the courts have overturned the handgun ban in DC this year. It is a fact that black folks do a lot more of shooting than white folks, so you may see a change or maybe not because blacks are the vast majority in DC and it is a violent city.
Toronto makes my point is living color ... no pun intended. It is the black drug gangs from Jamaica and Haiti etc who have all the guns.
The only thing left for Mayor Miller to do is either double the handgun ban or even go so far as to triple it. Beyond that he may be doing damage to the idea of banning anything. If you over-use anything, it will eventually wear out and become useless. But wait ... that has already happened.
The proof is that there are more handguns that ever in Canada. Fortunately, some of them are falling into the hands of good people who only wish to protect themselves and their families.
And more fortunately, many of the others are being used to kill people who will not be missed by their peers. So it's not really as big a problem as Mayor Ban-Miller makes it out to be. He's just a big pussy who is afraid of things that make loud noises. I'll bet he wears fuzzy slippers when he gets home. He certainly has a fuzzy brain when he's at work.
And remember this little nugget.
The one thing all slaves have in common is that they don't own guns.
Posted by: John V | 2008-10-19 2:41:56 PM
You should quote your sources for your figures
Posted by: Pete | 2008-10-19 2:59:27 PM
Pete, I embedded a link to the gun facts, but it's www.gunfacts.info.
Cheers.
Posted by: Chris Reid | 2008-10-19 3:11:58 PM
Guns in the hands of law abiding citizens are a deterrent to crime, period. Criminal assault is a behaviour, not a device. (the only enemies a gun has are rust and Politicians.)
And if anyone feels that guns kill people I would have to assume that they also think that spoons made Oprah fat and pencils mispell words.
Everyone (law abiding) should have the choice to own or not own guns, at least it would keep the criminals guessing...
That! and target shooting is a blast! :)
Posted by: JC | 2008-10-19 4:15:32 PM
Nah I like my way better. It's fairer.
Posted by: Zebulon Punk 19-Oct-08 2:30:46 PM
That because you're a socialist and you want to blame society for the deeds of criminals rather than the criminals for their deeds. Your solution is more programs for criminals, usually of the affirmative action type.
Posted by: The Stig | 2008-10-19 4:22:53 PM
Zeb said
"The Jane Creba case proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Toronto is a racist city populated by racist people. The white population just does not care when non-whites are victims of crime, but overreact like banshees when one of their own is harmed. "
The Jane Creba case proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Toronto is a racist city populated by racist people. The non-white population just does not care when whites are the victims of crime, but overreact like banshees when one of their own is the perpetrator.
Zeb,
Didn't Toronto cross the threshold a few years ago (and was trumpeted) where there were more minorities than whites?
Posted by: h2o273kk9 | 2008-10-19 4:47:22 PM
Race isn't the problem in Toronto. Instead it blocks the solution.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2008-10-19 8:16:14 PM
If Toronto really wants to solve its gun problem, then more whites will have to die.
Posted by: Zebulon Punk | 19-Oct-08 1:54:39 PM
Race isn't the problem in Toronto.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 19-Oct-08 8:16:14 PM
Race isn't a problem as long as they aren't white. What a fucking asshole. Stay in Alabama. Better yet go live in Compton.
Posted by: The Stig | 2008-10-19 8:45:39 PM
Damn-it-all, anyway! I get the impression that Zeb is a closet racist. What a disapointment.
Posted by: dewp | 2008-10-19 10:19:02 PM
Zeb,
"Race isn't the problem in Toronto. Instead it blocks the solution."
Agree with the second part but disagree with the first part. Come to think of it, your response is somewhat self-contradicting.
Posted by: h2o273kk9 | 2008-10-19 11:39:44 PM
It seems to me that the argument for banning guns is always emotional and rarely, if ever, supported by facts.
And Zeb, why does racism affect only white people?
Posted by: TM | 2008-10-20 5:37:18 AM
Ater reading Zebs various comments over the past year or so, I'm convinced he's a negro.
Posted by: atric | 2008-10-20 11:55:27 AM
Anyone who takes the name of a turnpike in Maryland as his nom-de-blog has issues-for certain.
Posted by: atric | 2008-10-20 12:16:38 PM
"fear of weapons is an indication of retarded emotional and sexual maturity" -Sigmund Freud
This, in my opinion, explains David Miller and McGuinty pretty well.
Posted by: Condor | 2008-10-20 1:59:33 PM
FYI:
http://www.pinkpistols.com/
Posted by: Nimrod45 | 2008-10-21 10:16:20 AM
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