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August 31, 2007
More Guns, Fewer Criminals
Posted by Dave Blount at August 31, 2007 7:10 AM
We've all heard the expression "more guns, less crime." Maybe that should be amended to "more guns, fewer criminals":
In Baltimore this year, about 91% of murder victims had criminal records. In Philadelphia, it's 75%; in Newark, 85%. Over the past two years in Milwaukee, 77% of murder victims had an average of almost 12 arrests.
As a professor at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, David Kennedy is able to see through media spin:
The notion that these (murders) are random bolts of lightning, which is the commonly held image, is not the reality.
Recent homicide records show about 97% of Baltimore's murder suspects have prior arrests.
Needless to say, criminals will use guns to kill each other whether law-abiding citizens are allowed to defend themselves or not. The cherished liberal idea that normal people exercising their Second Amendment rights leads to a significant number of innocents being murdered is absurd.
On a tip from V the K.
