steelerdude99
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http://www.freelancestar.com/2013-08-05/articles/14672/gun-sales-up-gun-crimes-down/
This article appeared in my local paper. The article originated in Richmond via AP. In it a VCU professor, Thomas Baker, is confused by his own bias by stating that if there were tougher gun laws, that crime would be even lower. Does he not realize why crime took a general downward trend? Later in the same article, a quote from director of the anti-gun group “Coalition to Stop Gun Violence” goes on and blames Virginia’s lack of background checks on getting a more accurate statistical picture. Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, brought a little sanity to those who won’t believe the numbers.
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What bothers me most about this article is that the press feeds this type of false information to the public and many who are not knowable fall for it.
Chuck
This article appeared in my local paper. The article originated in Richmond via AP. In it a VCU professor, Thomas Baker, is confused by his own bias by stating that if there were tougher gun laws, that crime would be even lower. Does he not realize why crime took a general downward trend? Later in the same article, a quote from director of the anti-gun group “Coalition to Stop Gun Violence” goes on and blames Virginia’s lack of background checks on getting a more accurate statistical picture. Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, brought a little sanity to those who won’t believe the numbers.
“It’s a quite interesting trend given the current rhetoric about strengthening gun laws and the presumed effect it would have on violent crimes,” Baker told the newspaper. “While you can’t conclude from this that tougher laws wouldn’t reduce crime even more, it really makes you question if making it harder for law-abiding people to buy a gun would have any effect on crime.”
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Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said that the real question is how many guns are sold without a background check.
“In other words, if people who buy those guns and have a background check, and keep those guns and don’t sell them, then you would not expect that those guns would affect the crime rate,” Horwitz told the newspaper. “The important analysis is not the total number of guns sold with a background check, but rather the number of guns sold without a background check.”
“In other words, if people who buy those guns and have a background check, and keep those guns and don’t sell them, then you would not expect that those guns would affect the crime rate,” Horwitz told the newspaper. “The important analysis is not the total number of guns sold with a background check, but rather the number of guns sold without a background check.”
What bothers me most about this article is that the press feeds this type of false information to the public and many who are not knowable fall for it.
Chuck