It's because of the guns deterring crime, and the death penalty deterring murder, that America has the lowest crime and murder rates in the world. Um, wait a second...
More ammo against the D.C. gun ban..............
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?...mp;pageId=57641
Some will point at the source I suppose.
Hmm. From the "news" story:
When sexual assaults started rising in Orlando, Fla., in 1986, police officers noticed women were arming themselves, so they launched a firearms safety course for them. Over the next 12 months, sexual assaults plummeted by 88 percent, burglaries fell by 25 percent and not one of the 2,500 women who took the course fired a gun in a confrontation.
For a start, the story gets the date wrong. By twenty years, in fact. The story originates with Gary Kleck, the same man who reckoned over 200,000 criminals were getting shot by citizens defending themselves each year.
Kleck's own data for Orlando doesn't exactly show remarkable benefits, either.
The rate of forcible rate in Orlando jumped about a lot in the 50s and 60s.
1959 - 26.02
1960 - 11.35
1961 - 6.72
1962 - 1.11
1963 - 0
1964 - 27.03
1965 - 12.82
1966 - 35.91 (the training programme began in 66)
1967 - 4.18 (training ended in 67)
1968 - 9.29
1969 - 16.43
Look at how the rate bounces around. From 26 in 59 to 0 in 63. There is certainly no clear trend caused by the training. In fact, the rate more than halved in the year
before the training began.
The same is true of burglary. Murder rates actually rose slightly, as did car theft.
In other words, there seems to have been little to no impact on crime rates, which rose in 64, fell in 65, rose in 66, fell in 67, rose in 68.