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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: 2 Killed, 1 Injured by Man Armed with Rifle at Mall Near Portland (20-60 Shots Reported) [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)"In any event, the replier above's posting of some random FBI survey on crime "proves" nothing: one could just as easily argue that higher incarceration rates, better policing tactics, and the like are much more responsible for the decrease in the overall crime rate, and that, in fact, with better gun control laws and policy those rates would be even lower - much lower."
(FWIW, I'm not posting this for you, since I know you wont read it, I'm posting it for everyone else that isn't an anti-gun idealogue, so that they can see just what is what for themselves.)
About that "random FBI survey on crime":
The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the United States, are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr
Yeah, pretty random.
"Funny how you Gungeoneers can never seem to fight your own fights, but always need a whole lot of company to back you up."
Need? No. Have? Absolutely.
Like it or not, gun ownership is a constitutionally protected right - and forget the "unlimited" or "absolute" argument, since I'm not claiming its absolute or unlimited.
And we who support that right - the "whole lot of company" you speak of - We aren't going away.
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