{"id":181,"date":"2013-05-07T02:59:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T09:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=181"},"modified":"2013-05-07T02:59:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T09:59:38","slug":"the-firearms-statistics-that-gun-control-advocates-dont-want-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"THE FIREARMS STATISTICS THAT GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES DON\u2019T WANT TO SEE"},"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=\"THE%20FIREARMS%20STATISTICS%20THAT%20GUN%20CONTROL%20ADVOCATES%20DON%E2%80%99T%20WANT%20TO%20SEE\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><em>http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/05\/06\/the-firearms-statistics-that-gun-control-advocates-dont-want-to-see\/<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May. 6, 2013 3:30pm\u00a0Jason Howerton<\/p>\n<p>To accompany TheBlaze\u2019s coverage of the National Rifle Association\u2019s annual meeting in Houston, we figured it could be helpful to share some gun statistics pointed out to us by some of the NRA Convention attendees. Forget the talking points used by both sides in the gun control debate; we\u2019re going to be talking about verified statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Gun control advocates be advised, these are not the statistics you are looking for.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the\u00a0FBI\u2019s uniform crime reports, California had the highest number of gun murders in 2011 with 1,220 \u2014 which makes up 68 percent of all murders in the state that year and equates to 3.25 murders per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The irony of such a grisly distinction is evident when you look at which state was\u00a0named the state with the strongest gun control laws\u00a0in 2011 by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. You guessed it \u2014 it was California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is very unusual is that California also has a program by which we can remove guns, recover guns from people who have a gun and then subsequently become prohibited or dangerous,\u201d Brady Campaign spokeswoman Amanda Wilcox said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted, though, that California is also one of the biggest states in the country, with a population of about about 37 million. Therefore, it might make sense that it would have a high number of murders but its murder rate is still high as gun control has had a seemingly inconsequential impact. In comparison, Texas has a population of about 25.6 million and saw 699 total gun murders in 2011 \u2014 nearly half that of California \u2014 and a firearms murder rate of 2.91 per 100,000.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Utah, the state that the Brady Campaign determined had the least gun control, experienced just 26 gun murders and a firearms murder rate of 0.97. Utah has a population 2.8 million.(Brady Campaign)<\/p>\n<p>But if you look at the data another way \u2014 murders per 100,000 people \u2014 another gun control haven tops the list.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI\u00a0data\u00a0also notes that Washington, D.C. had the highest murder rate per 100,000 people. The nation\u2019s capital saw 12 gun murders per 100,000 in 2011. DC also finished first in gun-related robberies per 100,000 people \u2013 with 242.56.<\/p>\n<p>In 1976, the District of Columbia\u00a0required all guns be registered, banned new handguns and required guns at home to be stored and dissembled or locked up. Unfortunately, the draconian measures \u2014 which lasted more than three decades \u2014 didn\u2019t had the desired effect.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist and attorney Jeffrey Scott Shapiro explains the not-so-surprising result in an\u00a0op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal\u00a0on Jan. 15, 2013:<\/p>\n<p>The gun ban had an unintended effect: It emboldened criminals because they knew that law-abiding District residents were unarmed and powerless to defend themselves. Violent crime increased after the law was enacted, with homicides rising to 369 in 1988, from 188 in 1976 when the ban started. By 1993, annual homicides had reached 454.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Since the gun ban was struck down, murders in the District have steadily gone down, from 186 in 2008 to 88 in 2012, the lowest number since the law was enacted in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Though it should be noted that the gun murders\u00a0started\u00a0decreasing in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Washington, D.C. still has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. And yet again, the gun murder rate remains dramatically high, the highest in the United States in fact.<\/p>\n<p>So, do the numbers indicate that gun control is the answer to gun violence? You decide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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=\"THE%20FIREARMS%20STATISTICS%20THAT%20GUN%20CONTROL%20ADVOCATES%20DON%E2%80%99T%20WANT%20TO%20SEE\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/05\/06\/the-firearms-statistics-that-gun-control-advocates-dont-want-to-see\/ May. 6, 2013 3:30pm\u00a0Jason Howerton To accompany TheBlaze\u2019s coverage of the National Rifle Association\u2019s annual meeting in Houston, we figured it could be helpful to share some gun statistics pointed out to us by some of the NRA Convention attendees. Forget the talking points used by both sides in the gun control debate; we\u2019re [&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-181","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\/181","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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}