The Assault Weapons Ban does not have to lower crime, it has to stop killings. Murder is not the only crime in the country. Wayne La Pierre is manipulating the language of the dialogue without adding facts to it.
In the preliminary crime report of the FBI, there was an increase in murder in cities greater than 500,000.
FBI Table (click here) The table reports changes in percentage rates.
It gets real clear from here.
Murder in cities with populations greater than 500,000 but less than 1 million people increased by 5.6 percent.
Murder in cities with populations greater than one million people increased by 7.2 percent.
There were also murder rate increases in towns with populations of 25,000 to 49,999 people and in towns under 10,000 persons.
The difference between those statistics is the POPULATION PRESSURE of large cities vs familiarity in the other. Small towns are considered to be under 50,000 people.
The reasons people murder are many, but, in the case of small towns it is usually personal and the people murdered usually know the killer.
In the case of large cities population pressure, but, also AVAILABILITY of weapons PER CAPITA is also a factor.
This is interesting. It is an old article from Frontline (click here) accounting for gun violence. There are some interesting facts. One where the NRA actually advocated a gun ban. There should be a contrast and compare of these statistics. The statistics state the number of firearms produced in the USA every minute back then was 8 and the number of handguns produced in the USA every minute was 3. I am quite sure it is higher than that now.
The Assault Weapons Ban was enacted on September 13, 1994. It wasn't called The Assault Weapons Ban either, it was named "Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act," as a subtitle to Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, H.R. 3355.
The contrast and compare should also include per capita amounts and not just sheer numbers. The per capita rate will account for population increases. Sheer numbers are important. If ignored a city can be wiped out.
The politics of the USA has overrun the governing. That has to stop. The politics has gotten to be ridiculous and saturated with money. If the Right Wing spent their money on good works rather than undermining our democracy for the purpose of money facilitated by power, they would not have problems being elected to office.
The six Ring of Fire companies (click here) lie around the outer edge of the Los Angeles metropolitan area; none is more than 45 miles from downtown Los Angeles. In clockwise order from north to south, the companies are Sundance Industries, in Valencia; Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT), in Irwindale; Phoenix Arms, in Ontario; Davis Industries and Lorcin Engineering, both in Mira Loma; and Bryco Arms, in Costa Mesa. Raven Arms was located in the City of Industry, not far from AMT....
In the preliminary crime report of the FBI, there was an increase in murder in cities greater than 500,000.
FBI Table (click here) The table reports changes in percentage rates.
It gets real clear from here.
Murder in cities with populations greater than 500,000 but less than 1 million people increased by 5.6 percent.
Murder in cities with populations greater than one million people increased by 7.2 percent.
There were also murder rate increases in towns with populations of 25,000 to 49,999 people and in towns under 10,000 persons.
The difference between those statistics is the POPULATION PRESSURE of large cities vs familiarity in the other. Small towns are considered to be under 50,000 people.
The reasons people murder are many, but, in the case of small towns it is usually personal and the people murdered usually know the killer.
In the case of large cities population pressure, but, also AVAILABILITY of weapons PER CAPITA is also a factor.
This is interesting. It is an old article from Frontline (click here) accounting for gun violence. There are some interesting facts. One where the NRA actually advocated a gun ban. There should be a contrast and compare of these statistics. The statistics state the number of firearms produced in the USA every minute back then was 8 and the number of handguns produced in the USA every minute was 3. I am quite sure it is higher than that now.
| Projected year when deaths from gunfire will surpass death from auto accidents: | 2001 |
(Source: CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Fact Sheet, 1/25/96) | |
| Year that the NRA supported a SNS importation ban and called the guns "miserably-made, potentially defective arms that contribute so much to rising violence" : | 1968 |
(Source: "Are we Really So Violent?" American Rifleman, February, 1968.) |
| Number of violent crime victimizations committed with a firearm in 1993: | 1.3 million |
Number in 1995: | 815,130 |
(Source: National Crime Victimization Survey, Cited in Guns Used in Crime, pg.1) | |
The politics of the USA has overrun the governing. That has to stop. The politics has gotten to be ridiculous and saturated with money. If the Right Wing spent their money on good works rather than undermining our democracy for the purpose of money facilitated by power, they would not have problems being elected to office.
The six Ring of Fire companies (click here) lie around the outer edge of the Los Angeles metropolitan area; none is more than 45 miles from downtown Los Angeles. In clockwise order from north to south, the companies are Sundance Industries, in Valencia; Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT), in Irwindale; Phoenix Arms, in Ontario; Davis Industries and Lorcin Engineering, both in Mira Loma; and Bryco Arms, in Costa Mesa. Raven Arms was located in the City of Industry, not far from AMT....
