{"id":163,"date":"2013-05-01T04:06:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T11:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-05-01T04:10:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T11:10:06","slug":"gun-control-myths-debunked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Gun control is not about safety, common sense or saving American lives \u2014 it\u2019s about \u201ccontrol.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Gun%20control%20is%20not%20about%20safety%2C%20common%20sense%20or%20saving%20American%20lives%20%E2%80%94%20it%E2%80%99s%20about%20%E2%80%9Ccontrol.%E2%80%9D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>TWO OF THE BIGGEST GUN CONTROL MYTHS DEBUNKED IN GLENN BECK\u2019S NEW BOOK \u2018CONTROL\u2019<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/05\/01\/two-of-the-biggest-gun-control-myths-found-in-glenn-becks-new-book-control\/\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/05\/01\/two-of-the-biggest-gun-control-myths-found-in-glenn-becks-new-book-control\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May. 1, 2013 1:30am<\/p>\n<p>By Jason Howerton<\/p>\n<p>Gun control is not about safety, common sense or saving American lives \u2014 it\u2019s about \u201ccontrol.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n1. More Guns Mean More Crime. \u00a0In reality, an extensive 2004 report by the National Academy of Science was not able to identify a single gun control regulation that actually reduces violent crime, suicides or accidents, Beck said. The NAS panel reviewed 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publication and some of its own empirical work on firearms.One of the main pillars of the gun control argument is the claim that more gun laws will make Americans safer. Because the facts do not support such a claim, one would think the scales would be tipped in favor of gun rights.A University of Pennsylvania study\u00a0also determined that the 1994 \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban did little to reduce violence while in effect.<\/p>\n<p>2. Strict Gun Control Works in Other Countries. Anti-gun advocates like CNN\u2019s Piers Morgan routinely claim strict gun control has been very effective in other countries like Great Britain and Japan, however, the numbers tell a slightly different story. Beck pointed out that within a decade after England practically banned all firearms in 1997, crime with handguns had doubled, armed street gangs caused British police to start carry guns and the country still experienced a mass shooting. Additionally, the homicide rate rose dramatically for seven years after the ban \u2014 from 1.1 per 100,000 to 1.8 per 100,000.Australia also enacted strict restrictions on firearms ownership following a mass shooting in 1996. The change in gun violence was so small that it was \u201cstatically irrelevant,\u201d Beck said.On the other hand, Switzerland has the third highest gun ownership rate in the world and a murder rate of 0.5 per 100,000. The country\u2019s murder rate is well below Australia, the U.K. and Canada while its gun laws are less strict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore gun control doesn\u2019t mean less crime,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Gun%20control%20is%20not%20about%20safety%2C%20common%20sense%20or%20saving%20American%20lives%20%E2%80%94%20it%E2%80%99s%20about%20%E2%80%9Ccontrol.%E2%80%9D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>TWO OF THE BIGGEST GUN CONTROL MYTHS DEBUNKED IN GLENN BECK\u2019S NEW BOOK \u2018CONTROL\u2019 http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/05\/01\/two-of-the-biggest-gun-control-myths-found-in-glenn-becks-new-book-control\/ May. 1, 2013 1:30am By Jason Howerton Gun control is not about safety, common sense or saving American lives \u2014 it\u2019s about \u201ccontrol.\u201d &#8230; 1. More Guns Mean More Crime. \u00a0In reality, an extensive 2004 report by the National Academy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2nd-ammendment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}