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The Lutheran
September 2001
Statistics tell another story
The presence of guns doesn't cause murder. The only reason a movement for gun control exists is because the following facts have been mostly hidden from the public. I found the majority of this information in the Statistical Abstract of the United States, a government book found in the reference sections of larger libraries.
In the gun-saturated states of Iowa, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, South Dakota and North Dakota, the murder rate was only 1.7 per 100,000 people in 1998. This is about as low as that rate gets anywhere in the world. The murder rates in these states have remained about the same each year since 1943.
Yet in Washington, D.C., and some other large cities, our murder rates are up to 75 per 100,000 per year. The reason for the vast difference between these two areas is family configuration and little else.
If we control family configuration, all correlations between race and crime and between low income and crime disappear. Seventy percent of all prison and reform school inmates come from fatherless homes. The majority of both the murderers and the victims have previous criminal records. That is why high violent-- crime rates can only be found in areas that have had a high prolonged rate of out-of-wedlock births.
Guns also have little to do with a nation's suicide rate. The gun-saturated United States had a suicide rate of 11.3 per 100,000 in 1998. Nearly gun-less Japan's suicide rate was 15.1. Canada's was 13.0. We also had the fourth lowest suicide rate out of 19 western European countries. Their rates varied from 26.1 in Finland to 7.2 in Italy.
Gun accidents killed 1,134 people in 1996. Motor vehicle accidents killed 43,649; accidental falls killed 14,786-perhaps stairs should be outlawed. Accidental drownings killed 3,488-should we ban swimming and pour concrete over the pools? Fires killed 3,741; drugs and medicines, 8,431; and the list goes on.
The last thing the gun-control people say is that control of guns reduces murder and violent crime. Wrong again. People living in England and Australia where guns are banned have violent-crime rates (rape and assault) twice as high as the gun-saturated United States. Car theft is three times higher in those countries than ours. Burglary is also 30 percent higher.
I could say more but this shows some of the social ramifications caused when people turn from God and the family structure collapses.
By: Anthony Rust
Article obtained from the link @:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3942/is_200109/ai_n8957191
To go to the latest U.S. statistical abstract:
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
September 2001
Statistics tell another story
The presence of guns doesn't cause murder. The only reason a movement for gun control exists is because the following facts have been mostly hidden from the public. I found the majority of this information in the Statistical Abstract of the United States, a government book found in the reference sections of larger libraries.
In the gun-saturated states of Iowa, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, South Dakota and North Dakota, the murder rate was only 1.7 per 100,000 people in 1998. This is about as low as that rate gets anywhere in the world. The murder rates in these states have remained about the same each year since 1943.
Yet in Washington, D.C., and some other large cities, our murder rates are up to 75 per 100,000 per year. The reason for the vast difference between these two areas is family configuration and little else.
If we control family configuration, all correlations between race and crime and between low income and crime disappear. Seventy percent of all prison and reform school inmates come from fatherless homes. The majority of both the murderers and the victims have previous criminal records. That is why high violent-- crime rates can only be found in areas that have had a high prolonged rate of out-of-wedlock births.
Guns also have little to do with a nation's suicide rate. The gun-saturated United States had a suicide rate of 11.3 per 100,000 in 1998. Nearly gun-less Japan's suicide rate was 15.1. Canada's was 13.0. We also had the fourth lowest suicide rate out of 19 western European countries. Their rates varied from 26.1 in Finland to 7.2 in Italy.
Gun accidents killed 1,134 people in 1996. Motor vehicle accidents killed 43,649; accidental falls killed 14,786-perhaps stairs should be outlawed. Accidental drownings killed 3,488-should we ban swimming and pour concrete over the pools? Fires killed 3,741; drugs and medicines, 8,431; and the list goes on.
The last thing the gun-control people say is that control of guns reduces murder and violent crime. Wrong again. People living in England and Australia where guns are banned have violent-crime rates (rape and assault) twice as high as the gun-saturated United States. Car theft is three times higher in those countries than ours. Burglary is also 30 percent higher.
I could say more but this shows some of the social ramifications caused when people turn from God and the family structure collapses.
By: Anthony Rust
Article obtained from the link @:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3942/is_200109/ai_n8957191
To go to the latest U.S. statistical abstract:
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/