When there are articles that homogenize the nation's statistics to illustrate there is a drop in the murder rate, it is to hide THE TRUTH.
An drop in the NATIONAL rates takes advantage of the SUCCESS of gun control laws in high populous states.
To understand why gun control laws work the answer is to examine the population density of the state and even cities. Alaska and Louisiana are among the most deregulated states in the nation and it shows.
When average citizens handle guns they do not discern the brevity of the circumstances of the human killing, they take a self-righteous defensive understanding and they kill. Police are trained to walk among citizens while being armed and have demands on their job descriptions for a margin of safety for the citizen. It isn't easy being a police officer. Often that margin of safety plays into the wounding and death of the officer. But, when one considers how often an officer is faced with confrontation of citizens on a daily basis the ratio of THAT ERROR is small. The problem is THAT ERROR is final.
Anderson Cooper conducted an interview yesterday evening. I didn't watch it because I already knew what occurred. I know that sounds self-righteous, but, I am confident others already knew the outcome as well. It is the laws. The one segment I saw and heard this morning stated, "The law was very confusing." The "Stand Your Ground" law goes too far. It creates a self-righteous bubble around gun owners. It is open season on human beings in states where this law exists.
The statistics bear out the truth. Where there are guns and liberal and draconian gun laws, people die in higher numbers. All the hubris and demands of the NRA is about money, not important rights for citizens. The NRA panders to murder and exoneration of preforming it. This is completely ludicrous. As Tracy Martin stated immediately upon finding his son was dead, "He went to the store."
Now, the self-righteous attorneys making plenty of money in this cases and getting COSTS of litigation for their clients, want to blame the victim. O'Mara and West have been doing nothing but blaming the victim since the verdict. That is oppression of the innocent. When death of an innocent person is justified it creates a culture of caution that INSTITUTIONALIZES oppression.
The laws are the problem and the institutionalization of the hubris is the ONLY problem. Trayvon Martin should be alive today and Zimmerman in prison wondering how all this happened. "Stand Your Ground" turns justice on it's head. "Stand Your Ground" will demand people previously unwilling to shoot a gun for self-protection or otherwise to seek it to attempt to master the oppression they all realize now exists. And those same people will be convinced gun control doesn't work because of the cultural lies that exist.
In the statistics on that gun map it is absolutely amazing to realize how high populous states actually have less deaths per 100,000 people. The map is from 2007. The laws were not as stringent in 2007 in those same states as today. The death rate in those states will fall that much more now. Countering that success with gun laws in the USA will be the increase in deaths in states with liberal AND ABSENT gun laws. The NRA and gun lobby will tout the fall in gun deaths in the nation as if their gun sales are actually the reason, when it is nothing but homogenizing the statistics and promoting gun sales at the same time.
Gun Control Laws are correct and NECESSARY. Citizen safety is to overwhelm the Wall Street profits.
If we are to honor the unjustified death of a dearly loved son in Florida the 'micro-arguments' justifying far reaching liberal laws has to be viewed for the deeply damaging results that occur.
The map above charts (click here) firearm deaths for the 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Note that these figures include accidental shootings, suicides, even acts of self-defense, as well as crimes. As of 2007, 10.2 out of every 100,000 people were killed by firearms across the United States, but that rate varies dramatically from state to state. In Hawaii, at the low end, it was 2.6 per 100,000; in New York and New Jersey it was 5.0 and 5.2 respectively. At the high end, 21.7 out of every 100,000 residents of the District of Columbia were killed by guns, 20.2 in Louisiana, 18.5 in Mississippi, and 17.8 in Alaska. Arizona ranked eighth nationally, with 15.1 deaths per 100,000.
Statistically this murder was going to happen and it did. Are we, as a nation, not obligated to protect all of us in the face of realizing profits for the few.
