do you think any gun laws help curtail crime?

[Diamondback6]

Do I think any gun laws help curtail crime?

Yes. Two words:
"Vermont Carry."

 

[ServiceSoon]

Would banning firearms reduce murder and suicide?

 

[jpk1md]

UK Stats http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime-victims/
US Stats http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/

 

[Texasbagman]

Interesting to read some of the replies on a gun forum to this question.

Felons that have served their sentences being denied their rights is a fairly recent thing.

The Constitution doens't grant anyone rights. It is a rule book for how our government is run. Nothing more. And it does not give our govenment the right to regulate firearms.

Having no gun laws is not anarchy. Having no government is anarchy.

And to the question the thread was started on, 4.5 years ago...

No, gun laws do not prevent crime. They can cause crime though.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

well I am pro-gun so my opinion doesn't matter, but....

Gary Mauser and Don B. Kates

In 2004 the U.S. National Academy of Sciences released its
evaluation from an review of 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43
government publications and some empirical research of its own.
It could not identify any gun control that had reduced violent
crime, suicide or gun accidents.{15}

The same conclusion was reached in a 2003 study by the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control's review of then-extant studies{16}
(The CDC is vehemently anti-gun and deemed its results to show
not that the more guns = more death mantra is erroneous but only
that the scores of studies it reviewed were inconclusively done.)

________________________

{15}Charles F. Wellford, John V. Pepper, and Carol V. Petrie
(eds.), FIREARMS AND VIOLENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW (National
Academy of Sciences, 2004). It is perhaps not amiss to note that
the review panel, which was set up during the Clinton
Administration, was almost entirely composed of scholars who, to
the extent their views were publicly known before their
appointments, favored gun control.

{16}"First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for
Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws" (CDC, 2003)
<cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5214a2.htm>

 

[gyp_c2]

hmmm...

...nope...
I'm still clinging to the idea that criminals should be held responsible for their actions...and that there are enough laws already being selectively enforced...
I don't need a nanny for myself or my kids...thankyouverymuch...

Yes some things appear to affect statistics...but, I still don't think a weapon that cost 200. ought to have a market of 20000 or so...IOW...yes, I think that some of our laws are a definite prohibition to most of us that would like to purchase the few, the fast, the expensive...because of the so-called common-sense approach to lawmaking...

 

[Kim]

NO. There is no evidence that it does. This has been known for hundreds of years. Some are just to ignorant to acknowledge their political IDEOLOGY is wrong. Of coarse most who talk gun control know this but their ideology is NOT to prevent crime.