Posted: 2/25/2007 6:47:41 PM EDT
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I need Ammo for my pro-gun and anti-AWB arguments. so far I have this: Pro-gun: Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2007 (Introduced in House) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:19:./temp/~c110SYCKi8:: H. R. 73 Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. (1) Police cannot protect, and are not legally liable for failing to protect, individual citizens, as evidenced by the following: (A) The courts have consistently ruled that the police do not have an obligation to protect individuals, only the public in general. For example, in Warren v. District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App. 1981), the court stated: `[C]ourts have without exception concluded that when a municipality or other governmental entity undertakes to furnish police services, it assumes a duty only to the public at large and not to individual members of the community.'. (B) Former Florida Attorney General Jim Smith told Florida legislators that police responded to only 200,000 of 700,000 calls for help to Dade County authorities. (C) The United States Department of Justice found that, in 1989, there were 168,881 crimes of violence for which police had not responded within 1 hour. (2) Citizens frequently must use firearms to defend themselves, as evidenced by the following: (A) Every year, more than 2,400,000 people in the United States use a gun to defend themselves against criminals--or more than 6,500 people a day. This means that, each year, firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. (B) Of the 2,400,000 self-defense cases, more than 192,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse. (C) Of the 2,400,000 times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, 92 percent merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8 percent of the time, does a citizen kill or wound his or her attacker. Anti AWB: FBI: Crime in the united states 2005, Murder by state and type of weapon. http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_20.html Of 14860 murders in 2005, 10100 firearms murders, only 442 involved any type of rifle, including common hunting rifles. US department of Justice. Calibers Most Often Used To Kill Police Officers In 1994 (BEFORE the '94 Federal "Assault Weapon" Ban): 1) .38 caliber handgun - 25.2% 2) .357 magnum handgun - 12.1% 3) 9mm handgun - 9.5% 5) 12 gauge shotgun - 7.4% 6) .22 caliber handgun - 5.4% 7) .22 caliber rifle - 4.4% State and Federal prison inmates armed during the crime for which they are being incarcerated: * 9.9% of state and 7.3% of federal inmates possessed "single-shot" firearms. * 7.9% of state and 7.7% of federal inmates possessed conventional semiautomatic firearm. * 1.5% of state and 1.7% of federal inmates possessed military-style semi-auto or full-auto firearms. State and Federal prison inmates who have ever possessed firearms during ANY crime: * 14.2% of state and 10.6% of federal inmates possessed "single-shot" firearm during ANY crime. * 10.9% of state and 9.8% of federal inmates possessed conventional semiautomatic firearm during ANY crime. * 2.5% of state and 2.3% of federal inmates possessed military-style semi-auto or full-auto firearms during ANY crime. Of State prison inmates who possessed military-style semi-auto or full-auto firearms in crimes for which they are incarcerated: * 48.5% obtained them through illegal sources (theft, drug dealer, black market, etc.) * 25.2% obtained them from family or friend. * 19.3% obtained them from retail sale. * 1.9% obtained them from gun shows. Six years prior to "Assault Weapon" Ban: Year....Total LEOs Killed...By Handguns...By Other Guns...By Other Methods 1988..................78.......................63......................13....................2 1989..................66.......................40......................17....................9 1990..................66.......................48.......................9....................9 1991..................71.......................50......................18....................3 1992..................64.......................44......................11....................9 1993..................70.......................50......................17....................3 TOTALS...........415......................295......................85...................35 Six years after "Assault Weapon" Ban: Year....Total LEOs Killed...By Handguns...By Other Guns...By Other Methods 1995..................74.......................43......................19...................12 1996..................61.......................50.......................7....................4 1997..................70.......................49......................18....................3 1998..................61.......................40......................18....................3 1999..................42.......................25......................16....................1 2000..................51.......................33......................14....................4 TOTALS...........355......................240......................92...................26 CHANGE......(-14%).................(-19%)................(+8%)...........(-26%) From The 1997 "Impact Evaluation" of the "Assault Weapon" Ban - "We were unable to detect any reduction to date in two types of gun murders that are thought to be closely associated with assault weapons, those with multiple victims in a single incident and those producing multiple bullet wounds per victim. We did find a reduction in killings of police officers since mid-1995. However, the available data are partial and preliminary, and the trends may have been influenced by law enforcement agency policies regarding bullet-proof vests." 5.2.3. Assault Weapons and Crime - "...assault weapons do not appear to be used disproportionately in violent crime relative to other guns" "Overall, assault weapons accounted for about 1% of guns associated with homicides, aggravated assaults, and robberies" and "only 2% of guns associated with drug crimes were assault weapons." 5.2.4. Unbanned Handguns Capable of Accepting Large-capacity Magazines - "The ban on large-capacity magazines does not seem to have discouraged the use of these guns." 6.2.1. Trends in Multiple-Victim Gun Homicides - "[Studies] failed to produce any evidence that the ban reduced the number of victims per gun homicide incident." 6.3.4. Conclusions - "[Studies] failed to produce evidence of a post-ban reduction in the average number of gunshot wounds per case or in the proportion of cases involving multiple wounds." 6.4.2. Assault Weapons and Homicides of Police Officers - "In sum, police officers are rarely murdered with assault weapons." From The 1999 "Impacts of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban" Report To Congress - "the weapons ["assault weapons] banned by this legislation were used only rarely in gun crimes before the ban" "The ban has failed to reduce the average number of victims per gun murder incident or multiple gunshot wound victims." "...the banned guns are used in only a small fraction of gun crimes; even before the ban, most of them rarely turned up in law enforcement agencies' requests... to trace the sales histories of guns recovered in criminal investigations." "The ban's short-term impact on gun violence has been uncertain" From The FINAL June 2004 "Updated Assessment On The Federal Assault Weapon Ban" Report To Congress - "AWs [Assault weapons] were used in only a small fraction of gun crimes prior to the ban" "...we cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation's recent drop in gun violence." "These analyses revealed no ban effects, thus failing to show confirming evidence of the mechanism through which the ban was hypothesized to affect the gun murder rate" "...there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence... as we might have expected had the ban reduced crimes committed with AWs (assault weapons) and LCMs (large-capacity magazines)." "Thus, it is premature to make definitive assessments of the ban's impact on gun violence." Military-style firearms (like "assault weapons") are specifically protected by the 2nd Amendment according to the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in U.S. v. Miller (1939) and Lewis v. U.S. (1980). * In the Miller decision the Supreme Court stated, "In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession of [a particular gun] has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument". * In the Lewis decision, the Supreme Court stated, "the Second Amendment guarantees no right to keep and bear a firearm that does not have 'some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia'". GIMME MORE AMMO. dont need comments, if you dont have statistics or unbiased facts with sources, dont bother posting. I had heard that the Austrailian crime rate jumped after the ban, any good statistics or studies on this? I had also heard that 18yr olds in switzerland are required to own assault rifles and ammo, anyone have a link to the law or resolution requiring this, and perhaps statistics showing the low violent crime rate there. ETA: thanks to The_Macallan, much of this came from him, unfortunately most of his links didn't work so I havn't correctly cited much of the information from the dept of justice and the AWB evaluations. if he is reading this, I would love for him to IM me the links, or at least guide me to the info. |
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ooooohhhh found a good one: 2nd amendment, many people claim that it only applies to the national guard, calling them the only "militia" A well-regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES Subtitle A--General Military Law PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS CHAPTER 13--THE MILITIA Sec. 311. Militia: composition and classes (a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. |