Has AWB Resulted in Less Law Enforcement Deaths From Assault Weapons?

[USAFNoDAk]

Here's a link to UCR (Uniform Crime Report) showing the number of officers killed by firearms. They don't specifically list "assault weapons", but you can sort of guess that this would include 9mm (with more than 10 rounds), .223, 7.62X39, and possibly .308.

If you look at those categories on page 37 of the UCR (page 43 in the Acrobat reader), you can see that the AWB of 94 had no effect on these numbers. They vary all over the place. Also notice that less than 20% of cops are killed with a rifle of any type, while handguns amount to around 66%, using rough numbers. The Brady Bunch and the VPC are blowing smoke up the public kiester when they say the AWB has improved the situation for law enforcement.

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/killed/02leoka.pdf

 

[Harry Tuttle]

the significance of the AWB on crime, falls below the marigin of error for the studies

 

[TheEgg]

I just find it so interesting that a few months ago, the proponents of renewing and expanding the AWB were tossing out bogus numbers to "prove" that a high percentage of cops killed on the job were killed by AW's (thus the AWB had to not only be renewed but expanded.)

Then, later(after is was apparent that an expanded AWB was not going to fly), bogus figures were tossed out "proving" that the AWB worked, reducing the carnage, and therefore the AWB should be renewed as is.

Then, after the defeat of the renewal in the Senate, the statements were 'well the ban was only symbolic and was not really meant to lower crime anyway -- to do that we need to ban LOTS more guns.'

Now, we are back to the "if it is allowed to expire, the blood will flow in the streets like a river."

Leftists liars -- they will say anything to promote their agenda -- the end justifies the means in their world. And sadly, this approach often works in confusing the sheep.

 

[Standing Wolf]

the significance of the AWB on crime, falls below the marigin of error for the studies

Surprise!

The so-called "assault weapons" ban's only purpose was to establish the legal principle that some guns are cosmetically too dangerous for commoners to own. It succeeded. Now it's going to lapse. The leftist extremists are going to have a hissing fit to end all hissing fits.

Wait until January, 2005.

 

[tyme]

Even if it has resulted in fewer LEO deaths by assault weapons, that statistic means nothing. Am I supposed to care less if a cop was killed with a post-ban ar-15?

"Thank goodness that cop wasn't shot with a _real_ assault weapon... things could have gotten ugly."

uke:

 

[Hkmp5sd]

"Assault rifles have never been an issue in law enforcement. I have been on this job for 25 years and I haven't seen a drug dealer carry one. They are not used in crimes, they are not used against police officers."

-- Trenton NJ Deputy Chief of Police Joseph Constance

 

[Old Fuff]

The whole thing is a moot point. The “ban†didn’t really ban anything. All of the guns that were in private hands (so called pre-ban) were left alone. More guns were built with nothing more then cosmetic changes. During the past 9 years the number of (so-called) assault weapons didn’t go down, they increased – and by substantial numbers. Given this to be the case, the number of officers killed should have gone up in proportion to the increased number of guns in circulation.

But according to recognized statistics this didn’t happen. The number actually went down. The anti-gunner’s credit this to the Clinton/Democrats ban, while ignoring the fact that each year the number of guns was actually going up.

 

[kd7ctv]

I pulled this off of the Link;
Weapons
Weapons data reported to the national Program in
2002 showed that firearms were used in 51 of the 56
officer murders. Handguns were used in 38 of the killings,
and 11 of these were committed using 9 mm handguns.
Rifles were used in 10 officer slayings, andshotguns
were used in 3 of the murders.

In addition to those victims killed by firearms,
4 officers were intentionally struck by vehicles,
and 1 officer was stabbed to death with a knife.
(See Tables 26, 27, and 32.) From 1993 through 2002,
636 officers were killed in the line of duty.
Of that number, 591 officers were killed with firearms,
and 443 of those victims were killed with handguns.
In addition, 9 officers were killed with bombs,
8 officers with knives or other cutting instruments,
3 with personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.),
and 25 officers were murdered with other weapons (vehicles, blunt objects, etc.).
During that same 10-year period, 46 of the officers killed
with firearms were slain with their own weapons.
(See Tables 14 and 26.) Furthermore,
during that 10-year period,
136 of the 636 officers feloniously killed fired
their service weapons during the incident.
In addition, assailants stole the service weapons
from 97 of the victim officers. (See Tables 12 and 13.)
Among the 51 officers who were killed by firearms in 2002,
25 victim officers were within 5 feet and 9 were within
6 to 10 feet of their attackers. Eight officers were
within 11 to 20 feet of their assailants, 3 officers
were within 21 to 50 feet, and 4 victims were over 50
feet from their attackers. The distance between victim
and attacker was not provided for 2 officers. (See Table 33.)

Funny I don't see Assult weapons listed, I am sure they are listed under Pistol for the purpose of this report....