Reply #194: Convenient misrepresentation of gun crimes in Florida by Benchley

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Benchley,

You use the term violent crimes but you neatly ignore posted stats about gun crimes. And you also ignore population growth.

http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/fsac/Crime_Trends/violent/fa_index.asp

Gun crimes in Florida went from 260 per 100,000 in 1996, down to 150 per 100,000 in 2003. That's a 42% decrease in gun crime since 1996. Gun murders in Florida declined by 27% in the years you cited, 87-93. And gun robberies have declined by 48% since the CCW law went into effect.

You also don't respond to any of my postings about court definitions on the second amendment. And you slip in ad hominems and psycho-sexual references about anyone who wants to preserve their gun rights. According to you, everybody who owns a gun is a nut, with a castration complex, and a fetish. Does anyone else on this thread put this in a psyco-sexual context? There may be a problem, and not with guns.

That's quite a picture forming here.