You do not need to go to Harvard to realize that this is wrong. The fellow is American and is juggling with statistics so that they look better for America.
As the studies are being done to please you (and you not paying for the studies !!!), Americans are killing each other. No problem, no?And that seems like it would be a very unbiased website.
Their so-called “study” has no credible names attached to it (like a professor of criminology or even statistics), and they provide no data to back up their claims. They make claims about what people say using exact percentages without any justification where they got those numbers from (they could have pulled them out of thin air for all we know).
This is a paper that would have gotten an F in a 1st year university class. I wouldn’t even call that a study at all; it proves absolutely nothing. Your papers are only as good as the data that backs them up, that’s real science.
Show us a real study done by a professor in criminology from a major Canadian University, not some advocacy group PR propaganda.
I sometimes wonder what kind of American Values are referred to: violence against each other ? Cow-boy attitude? Justice at Far-West style with one’s own hands? Each person may hold guns, whatever definition the word “gun” has, for instance a gun-boat, a machine-gun, as we discuss the fine details?
Yeah, people seems to lose their heads when discussing this…
I’ll summarize.Thanks. I’ll read it in detail later, but I fast forwarded to the conclusion:
“The system of gun control in Canada works because it affirms, symbolically, the deeply held values of orderliness and non-violence. Thus, before attempting to transplant the Canadian system to America, it is important to consider whether the Canadian system can accommodate traditional American values as adequately as it accommodates Canadian ones. Since there is little empirical evidence to demonstrate that Canadian gun control laws actually reduce crime, the law’s greatest benefit appears to be symbolic. It is difficult to determine whether, and to what extent, American values and culture can yield to embrace the characteristic benefits derived from Canadian-style gun control.”
So, their gun control laws work for them…despite any empirical evidence to demonstrate that.
Really? The Research Director for the Canadian Shooting Sports Association is an American? Well, a North American, so yes…
What is the difference between the number of murders per year per population count between countries would be a better measure of the efficacy of gun control laws. If gun control hampers gun crimes, does it hamper murder / crime or do outlaws simply find another weapon of choice. Wikipedia shows it as 4 to 1 for USA to UK in 2010. Still not a very pretty picture for the USA.
US muder rate is 4.8 per 100,000.
I think the general rule in Mexico is only the military, police, and criminals can have guns. Everyone else is a victim of some sort.
How many modern “western” nations were taken over by tyrannical governments in the 20th century? Pretty all the nations in Europe except England, Switzerland and Norway. Many of the “modernized” nations and most of the backward nations of Africa, A few in Central America, a few in South America, several in SE Asia and much of Eastern Asia.
In a life-threatening situation when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. You mean the concealed carry citizen didn’t make like the OK Coral and “pump him fulla lead”? I thought that is what people who love guns do, they just walk around with an itchy trigger finger waiting to blow someone’s head off.
I wouldn’t hold that against him, maybe next time.
I swear, I think some of the more virulent anti-gun posters here see us law-abiding and peaceful concealed carry owners like this:
Spears and rocks don’t count.
