Need Help With School Paper:Argument For Handgun Ownership

[Librarian]

Right, 5Wire; the whole report is here. Lots more interesting things on line at BJS.

18-24 is the bad age, cities > 250,000 are the bad places, being male is a bad demographic, and being involved in an argument ("Arguments include brawls due to the influence of narcotics or alcohol, disagreements about money or property and other arguments.") or a felony is a bad circumstance.

And I'm sure glad things started getting better 1994-1995! If those 15's look bad in 1999 and 2000,

1990 - 1998, United States
Homicide Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
All Races,
Both Sexes,
ICD-9 Codes: E965.0-.4


                                       Number of                    Crude     Age-Adjusted
  Year      Race                          Deaths   Population***     Rate           Rate**

  1990      White                          7,376     209,195,598     3.53             3.39
            Black                          8,497      30,629,197    27.74            24.56
            Am Indian/AK Native               80       2,075,381     3.85             3.54
            Asian/Pac Islander               258       7,564,220     3.41             3.12
                                    ------------  --------------  -------  ---------------
                                          16,211     249,464,396     6.50

  1991      White                          7,944     211,606,011     3.75             3.63
            Black                          9,327      31,290,743    29.81            26.49
            Am Indian/AK Native              110       2,126,968     5.17             4.86
            Asian/Pac Islander               352       7,957,220     4.42             4.02
                                    ------------  --------------  -------  ---------------
                                          17,733     252,980,942     7.01

  1992      White                          7,927     213,945,622     3.71             3.61
            Black                          9,151      31,979,982    28.61            25.51
            Am Indian/AK Native               89       2,202,180     4.04             3.71
            Asian/Pac Islander               321       8,386,447     3.83             3.45
                                    ------------  --------------  -------  ---------------
                                          17,488     256,514,231     6.82

  1993      White                          7,918     216,187,073     3.66             3.58
            Black                          9,824      32,634,736    30.10            27.09
            Am Indian/AK Native              106       2,282,055     4.64             4.49
            Asian/Pac Islander               405       8,814,731     4.59             4.11
                                    ------------  --------------  -------  ---------------
                                          18,253     259,918,595     7.02

  1994      White                          7,774     218,304,774     3.56             3.50
            Black                          9,302      33,258,983    27.97            25.31
            Am Indian/AK Native              123       2,361,080     5.21             4.85
            Asian/Pac Islander               328       9,200,989     3.56             3.32
                                    ------------  --------------  -------  ---------------
                                          17,527     263,125,826     6.66

  1995      White                          7,144     220,384,783     3.24             3.20
            Black                          7,935      33,847,308    23.44            21.43
            Am Indian/AK Native              130       2,441,756     5.32             4.85
            Asian/Pac Islander               342       9,604,556     3.56             3.25
                                    ------------  --------------  -------  ---------------
                                          15,551     266,278,403     5.84

27's and 30 are downright terrifying!

 

[berettashotgun]

Methinks everyone should required to go 3 years in the service. A lot of this discussion would go away:banghead:

 

[ReadyontheRight]

Research the statistics on violent crime in the United States compared to the rest of the world.

Countries having successful gun control laws in the 20th Century -- and the results of those laws:

1915-1917 Ottoman Turkey, 1.5 million Armenians murdered
1929-1953 Soviet Union, 20 million people that opposed Stalin were murdered.
1933-1945 Nazi occupied Europe, 13 million Jews, Gypsies and others that opposed Hitler, murdered
1948-1952 China, 20 million anti-communists or communist reformers, murdered
1960-1981 Guatemala, 100,000 Maya Indians, murdered
1971-1979 Uganda, 300,000 Christians and political rivals of Idi Amin, murdered
1975-1979 Cambodia, 1 million educated persons, murdered
1995 Srebrenica Bosnians disarmed by the UN, the UN withdrew, Srebrenica was overrun and over 8,000 now-disarmed people were murdered by the Serb army.

That’s more than 2000 unarmed men, women and children murdered by their own government for every single day in the 20th century.

Proof enough for me that handgun ownership is important.

 

[Surat]

Just my two cents worth here but the ban guns to prevent suicide thing is so effing retarded only a liberal would think it's good logic. :banghead:
I currently work in county jail for the Sheriff's Office here. One thing that is constant in people's minds is suicide prevention. People kill themselves in jails and prisons at rather high rates, especially during the first 24 hours of incarceration. unless there is some kind of horrible eff up, none of these people have firearms. I've heard of people suffocating themselves with trash bags, strangleing htemselves with rope improvised out of toilet paper, even drowning themselves in toilet bowls. I sat at the ER yesterday with a guy that tried to OD on Xanax and beer, then took a drier vent hose and hooked it to his car's tail pipe and ran it into the window.
If people want to die they will find a way.

Don't even get me started on "trans-national progressives"

 

[crebralfix]

The reason there should be NO licensing, NO classes, and NO requirements is because it is a RIGHT.

Futhermore, when such standards are instituted, the state may then CHANGE them as it sees fit. Just look at several foreign countries and what they require for gun ownership. In several cases, it is simply impossible to get a gun permit.

Put it another way:

There should be classes and licensing for anyone wishing to express an opinion in public.

 

[jad0110]

I've heard of people suffocating themselves with trash bags, strangleing htemselves with rope improvised out of toilet paper, even drowning themselves in toilet bowls. I sat at the ER yesterday with a guy that tried to OD on Xanax and beer, then took a drier vent hose and hooked it to his car's tail pipe and ran it into the window. If people want to die they will find a way.

Good post, especially the last sentence. You can replace the word "die" with "kill" and it will be just as truthful.

I work with a guy who served our nation in the US Army, won't say which unit or when this happened. They had a guy try to commit suicide by hanging himself from the pipes in the basement of their barracks with his tightie whities. Apparently, he had not considered the elascticity of underwear and, not surprisingly, failed in his suicide attempt miserably. He was eventually kicked out of the Army and my friend did not know for sure what became of him, but believes he is still around somewhere.

Thereafter, this poor jack*$$ was known as "Skidmark".

 

[wooderson]

Look into isolating violence (specifically gun violence) in regard to population density, poverty and the presence of social welfare.

 

[telomerase]

A couple of sentences about the Warsaw Ghetto rising would be good.

Governments kill a lot more people than other criminals. Keeping them under control is the biggest security problem we have.