Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns (24 page)

BUT OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE STRICT GUN CONTROL AND VERY FEW MURDERS.

“ ‘
They have two or three murders a year. You have 11,000 to 12,000
’ ” Piers Morgan, “Gun Control in America; Aurora Families Speak Out,”
Piers Morgan Tonight
, CNN, December 17, 2012,
http://bit.ly/YZGT8r
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reported just two gun murders and five armed robberies
” Joyce Lee Malcolm, Guns and Violence: The English Experience (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002) 209–16. • “ ‘
self-defense was never a good reason for a permit
’ ” Joyce Lee Malcolm, “Joyce Lee Malcolm: Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 26, 2012,
http://on.wsj.com/16Jf20rl
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Semi-automatic rifles were banned and shotguns were regulated like handguns
” Joyce Lee Malcolm, “Joyce Lee Malcolm: Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 26, 2012,
http://on.wsj.com/16Jf20r
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forcing lawful owners to turn them in or face ten years in prison
” Joyce Lee Malcolm, “Joyce Lee Malcolm: Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 26, 2012,
http://on.wsj.com/16Jf20r
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killing 12 people and injuring 11 more before killing himself
’ ” Joyce Lee Malcolm, “Joyce Lee Malcolm: Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control,”
Wall Street Journal,
December 26, 2012,
http://on.wsj.com/16Jf20r
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from 1.1 homicides per 100,000 people in 1996 to 1.8 in 2003
” Kevin Smith ed. Sarah Osborne, Ivy Lau, and Andrew Britton, “Homicides Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence 2010/11: Supplementary Volume 2 to Crime in England and Wales 2010/11,”
Home Office Statistical Bulletin
, January 2012,
http://bit.ly/16Jkss9
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the police force was expanded by 16 percent between 2001 and 2005
” Simon Bullock and Natalie Gunning, “Police Service Strength,” Home Office Statistical Bulletin, July 26, 2007,
http://bit.ly/16Jf88n
, See also: Amardeep Dhani, “Police Service Strength,”
Home Office Statistical Bulletin
, July 26, 2012,
http://bit.ly/16Jfgoh
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crime generally remained higher than before the Firearms Act
” Cal Flyn, “Graphic: How the Murder Rate Has Fallen,”
Telegraph
, July 19, 2012,
http://bit.ly/16JfqMn
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after the laws were passed many of these same people continued to own guns
” “Australian Guns,”
snopes.com
, accessed March 6, 2013,
http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp
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the country averaged only about 550 gun-related deaths per year
” Jenny Mouzos and Catherine Rushforth, “Firearm Related Deaths in Australia, 1991–2001,” Australian Institute of Criminology,
Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice,
no. 269 (November 2003), 261–80,
http://bit.ly/16JfyM0
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More than 650,000 guns were turned in or confiscated from 1996 to 1997 as a result of this buy-back
” Daniel Burdon, “US Would Benefit from a Gun Buyback: Labor MP,”
Sunshine Coast Daily
, December 17, 2012,
http://bit.ly/100vC6G
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bought more single-shot guns, bringing the total back to 3.2 million after about fourteen years
” Nick Ralston, “Australia Reloads as Gun Amnesties Fail to Cut Arms,”
Sydney Morning Herald
, January 14, 2013,
http://bit.ly/16Jkxwe
. • “
averaged 82 per year from 1991 to 1996, and 58 per year from 1997 to 2001
”
Jenny Mouzos and Catherine Rushforth, “Firearm Related Deaths in Australia, 1991–2001,” Australian Institute of Criminology,
Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice,
no. 269 (November 2003), 261–80,
http://bit.ly/16JfyM0
. • “
increased to about 255 per year from 1997 to 2001
” Jeanine Baker and Samara McPhedran, “Gun Laws and Sudden Death,”
British Journal of Criminology
47, no. 3 (October 2006), 455–69,
http://bit.ly/11heta1
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those who would’ve used a gun instead use something else, like a knife
” Australian Institute of Criminology, “Homicide Weapon Statistics,” accessed March 6, 2013,
http://bit.ly/TDJ7WU
. • “ ‘
NFA [the 1996–97 National Firearms Agreement] did not have any large effects on reducing firearm homicide or suicide rates
’ ” Wang-Sheng Lee and Sandy Suardi, “The Australian Firearms Buyback and Its Effect on Gun Deaths,”
Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series
, Working Paper, no. 17/08 (August 2008),
http://bit.ly/100vFQ5
. • “ ‘
gun buy-back and restrictive legislative changes had no influence on firearm homicide
’ ” Jeanine Baker and Samara McPhedran, “Gun Laws and Sudden Death,”
British Journal of Criminology
47, no. 3 (October 2006), 455–469,
http://bit.ly/11heta1
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from about 6,000 in 1996 to around 10,000 between 1998 and 2001
” Australian Institute of Criminology, “Australian Crime: Robbery Statistics,” accessed March 18, 2013,
http://bit.ly/ZM6K2O
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Japan has imposed strict gun control for centuries
” David Kopel, “Japanese Gun Control,” Asia Pacific Law Review 2 (1993), 26–52,
http://bit.ly/YpMghY
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but handguns are banned
” Eric Talmadge, “Around World, Gun Rules, and Results, Vary Wildly,”
USA Today,
January 27, 2013,
http://usat.ly/11helHJ
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Switzerland had a gun homicide rate of 0.5 per 100,000 people in 2010
” Helena Bachmann, “The Swiss Difference: A Gun Culture That Works,”
Time,
December 20, 2012,
http://ti.me/11h4LEN
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Their overall homicide rate was 0.7
” “Intentional Homicide, Count and Rate per 100,000 Population (1995–2011),” 2011 Global Study on Homicide: Trends/Contexts/Data (Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2011),
http://bit.ly/16JkTTx
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well below other gun-control havens like Australia (1.0), the UK (1.2) and Canada (1.6)
” “Intentional Homicide, Count and Rate per 100,000 Population (1995–2011),” 2011 Global Study on Homicide: Trends/Contexts/Data (Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2011),
http://bit.ly/16JkTTx
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the lowest rates of gun ownership in Europe at 3.9 per capita
” Aaron Karp, “Completing the Count: Civilian Firearms,” Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City (2007),
http://bit.ly/16Jg0tt
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all have lower murder rates than The Netherlands—and far more guns per capita
” “Intentional Homicide, Count and Rate per 100,000 Population (1995–2011),” 2011 Global Study on Homicide: Trends/Contexts/Data (Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2011),
http://bit.ly/16JkTTx
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D.C.’s handgun . . . went into effect in early 1977
” “A History of D.C. Gun Ban,”
Washington Post
, June 26, 2008,
http://wapo.st/16JgcJj
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D.C.’s murder rate ranked in top four among the fifty largest U.S. cities
” John R. Lott, Jr., More Guns, Less Crime, 3rd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 306–307. • “
suddenly stopped falling and instead rose slightly to 23 in the five years afterward
” “D.C.’s Flawed Reasoning,”
Washington Times
, September 7, 2007,
http://bit.ly/16JgK1X
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Chicago’s murder rate fell from being 8.1 times greater than its neighbors in 1977 to 5.5 times in 1982, and then went way up to 12 times greater in 1987
” “D.C.’s Flawed Reasoning,”
Washington Times
, September 7, 2007,
http://bit.ly/16JgK1X
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there were 1.5 million active licenses in 1998 and only 200,000 four years later
” Associated Press, “State Gun Licenses Plung,”
Cape Cod Times
, August 20, 2002,
http://bit.ly/16JgSOO
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gunshot injuries are up, according to FBI and state data
” MacQuarrie, Brian, “Gun Crimes Increase in Massachusetts Despite Tough Gun Laws,”
Boston Globe
, February 3, 2013,
http://bo.st/16JgWOK
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a striking increase from the 65 in 1998
’ ” Brian MacQuarrie, “Gun Crimes Increase in Massachusetts Despite Tough Gun Laws,”
Boston Globe
, February 3, 2013,
http://bo.st/16JgWOK
. • “
from aggravated assault (up 26.7 percent) to armed robbery (up 20.7 percent)—also increased
” Brian MacQuarrie, “Gun Crimes Increase in Massachusetts Despite Tough Gun Laws,”
Boston Globe
, February 3, 2013,
http://bo.st/16JgWOK
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the state’s lowest per capita homicide rate occurred in 1997
” “Massachusetts Crime Rates 1960–2011,”
disastercenter.com
, accessed March 6, 2013,
http://bit.ly/MPCJLO
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the homicide rate over that same time period was down 31 percent
” “United States Crime Rates 1960–2011,”
disastercenter.com
, accessed March 6, 2013,
http://bit.ly/Vhgor
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THE UNITED STATES IS UNIQUE IN SUFFERING FROM GUN MASSACRES.

“ ‘
And we’ve just got to stop this
’ ” Lynn Sweet, “Bloomberg on Only in America: We Kill People,” Lynn Sweet:
The Scoop from Washington blog
at
suntimes.com
, December 16, 2012,
http://bit.ly/11hedYG
. • “ ‘
the problem that America has with gun massacres
’ ” Rachel Maddow,
Rachel Maddow Show
, MSNBC, January 11, 2011,
http://nbcnews.to/11he9It
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he murdered 69 people
” “Norwegian Youth Party to Host Summer Camp, Two Years After Anders Breivik,”
Telegraph
, January 30, 2013,
http://bit.ly/100vMuX
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on November 26, 2008, 164 people were killed
” Harmeet Sha Singh, “India Remembers Mumbai Dead,”
cnn.com
, November 26, 2010,
http://bit.ly/11he5bA
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sixteen kindergartners and their teacher were killed
” John Lott, “Think Tough Gun Laws Keep Europeans Safe? Think again . . . ,”
foxnews.com
, June 10, 2010,
http://fxn.ws/ZXBTRa
. • “
Two nine-month-old babies and one day-care worker were killed
” Bruno Waterfield and John Bingham, “Belgium ‘Joker’ Creche Killer Snorted with Laughter in Police Interrogation,”
Telegraph
, January 24, 2009,
http://bit.ly/11hdUgF
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He murdered eight children and seriously wounded thirteen other kids, along with two teachers
” “Japan Mourns School Victims,”
cnn.com
, June 10, 2001,
http://bit.ly/100vUur
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China has suppressed and censored much of the news
” Edward Wong, “Fifth Deadly Attack on a School Haunts China,”
New York Times
, May 12, 2010,
http://nyti.ms/11hdYNo
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Eight were reported to be killed
” “China Executes Killer of Eight School Children,”
BBC News
, April 28, 2010,
http://bbc.in/aJDhN6
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stabbed sixteen students and a teacher in an elementary school
” Jaime FlorCruz, “Execution Does Not Stop Chinese Knife Attack,”
cnn.com
, May 3, 2010,
http://bit.ly/100vZy2
. • “
stabbed twenty-eight students, two teachers, and one security guard in a kindergarten
” Jaime FlorCruz, “Execution Does Not Stop Chinese Knife Attack,”
cnn.com
, May 3, 2010,
http://bit.ly/100vZy2
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armed with a hammer attacked children in a preschool
” Jaime FlorCruz, “Execution Does Not Stop Chinese Knife Attack,”
cnn.com
, May 3, 2010,
http://bit.ly/100vZy2
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murdered seven children and two adults and injured eleven others
” Christopher Bodeen, “9 Killed in Latest Attack at China School,” Associated Press, May 12, 2010,
http://bit.ly/11hdKWp
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killing three children and one teacher
” “Man Held Over Fatal Knife Attack at China Kindergarten,”
BBC News
, August 4, 2010,
http://bbc.in/aTu1Zi
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slashed eight children
” “Eight Children Hurt in China School Attack,”
BBC News
, August 29, 2011,
http://bbc.in/oP5EKx
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murdered a one-year-old and a four-year-old and four adults
” Haolan Hong and Jaime FlorCruz, “6 Die in China Ax Attack,”
cnn.com
, September 14, 2011,
http://bit.ly/11hdSFv
. • “
stabbed an elderly woman and twenty-three children at an elementary school
” An Baijie, “Suspect in School Knife Attack ‘Feared End of the World,’ ”
China Daily
, December 18, 2012,
http://bit.ly/161rlnB
. • “
with fingers and ears cut off
” “22 Stabbed Students Receive Treatment in Central China,”
news.xinhuanet.com
, December 15, 2012,
http://bit.ly/11hdIxT
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stabbed to death nine people and wounded four others with a knife
” Associated Foreign Press, “Teen Kills Nine in Stabbing Frenzy,”
Herald Sun
, August 2, 2012,
http://bit.ly/100wjx1
. • “
Mass shootings happen with appalling regularity in Mexico, a place with restrictive gun control laws
” Cave, Damien,“At a
Nation’s Only Gun Shop, Looking North in Disbelief,”
New York Times,
24 July 2012.
http://nyti.ms/100wlVA
. • “
one in February when thirteen people were killed at a party
” “Juarez Police Seek Motive in Mass Shooting,”
United Press International
, February 1, 2010,
http://nyti.ms/100wlVA
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in September, when eight were killed inside a bar
” CNN Staff Writer,“Bar Shooting in Juarez Leaves 8 Dead,”
CNN
, 17 September 2010,
http://bit.ly/11hD.C.9p
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El Paso, Texas, which was recently named the “safest large city in America
” Borunda, Daniel, “El Paso Ranked Safest Large City in U.S. for 3rd Straight Year,”
El Paso Times
, February, 6, 2013,
http://bit.ly/11hdDtY
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