Gun Facts & Media Resource

[jonahpach]

Here's an interesting download for all ye proponents of RKBA.. Most of the facts are commonsensically known to most of us. But nevertheless an interesting read and good factual resource a.k.a. one of those programmes whasisname?? on discovery where they debunk all them myths and folklores..

Excerpts..
Myth: Assault weapons are a serious problem in the U.S.
Fact: In 1994, before the Federal “assault weapons ban,” you were eleven (11) times more likely to be beaten to death than to be killed by an “assault weapon.”2 In the first year since the ban was lifted, murders declined 3.6%, and violent crime 1.7%.3
Fact: Nationally, “assault weapons” were used in 1.4% of crimes involving firearms and 0.25% of all violent crime before the enactment of any national or state “assault weapons” ban. In many major urban areas (San Antonio, Mobile, Nashville, etc.) and some entire states (Maryland, New Jersey, etc.) the rate is less than 0.1%.4
Fact: Even weapons misclassified as “assault weapons” (common in the former Federal and California “assault weapons” confiscations) are used in less than 1% of all homicides.5
Fact: Police reports show that “assault weapons” are a non-problem:
For California:
• Los Angeles: In 1998, of 538 documented gun incidents, only one (0.2%) involved an “assault weapon.”
• San Francisco: In 1998, only 2.2% of confiscated weapons were “assault weapons.”
• San Diego: Between 1988 and 1990, only 0.3% of confiscated weapons were “assault weapons.”
• “I surveyed the firearms used in violent crimes...assault-type firearms were the least of our worries.”6
1 Department of Defense Small Arms Identification and Operations Guide
2 FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1994
3 FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, Preliminary Summary, 2004
4 Targeting Guns, Gary Kleck, Aldine Transaction, 1997, compilation of 48 metropolitan police departments from 1980-1994
5 FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1993
6 S.C. Helsley, Assistant Director DOJ Investigation and Enforcement Branch, California, October 31, 1988


Myth: Countries with strict gun control have less crime
Fact: In America, we can demonstrate that private ownership of guns reduces crime, but from country to country there is no correlation between gun availability and the violent crime rate. Consider this:

Or, to use detailed data, we can contrast the per capita homicide rate with the per capita gun ownership rate between different industrialized countries (see graph below). Doing so shows zero correlation between the availability of guns and the overall homicide rate.
Fact: Countries with the strictest gun-control laws also tended to have the highest homicide rates.32
Fact: According to the U.N., as of 2005, Scotland was the most violent country in the developed world, with people three times more likely to be assaulted than in America. Violent crime there has doubled over the last 20 years. 3% of Scots had been victims of assault compared with 1.2% in America.33
Fact: “... the major surveys completed in the past 20 years or more provides no evidence of any relationship between the total number of legally held firearms in society and the rate of armed crime. Nor is there a relationship between the severity of controls imposed in various countries or the mass of bureaucracy involved with many control systems with
Gun Ownership and Homicide Rates
32 Violence, Guns and Drugs: A Cross-Country Analysis, Jeffery A. Miron, Department of Economics, Boston University, University of Chicago Press Journal of Law & Economics, October 2001.
33 Scotland tops list of world's most violent countries, The Times, September 19, 2005

Myth: The United States is the source of 90% of drug syndicate guns in Mexico
Fact: This is an often misquoted data point from the BATFE, who said 90% of the firearms that have been interdicted in transport to Mexico or recovered in Mexico came from the United States. Thus the 90% number includes only the firearms American and Mexican police stop in transport.70
Fact: The original number was derived from the number of firearms successfully traced, not the total number of firearms. For 2007-2008, Mexican officials recovered approximately 29,000 firearms from crime scenes and asked for BATFE traces of 11,000. Of those, the BATFE could trace roughly 6,000 of which 5,114 were confirmed to have come from the United States. Thus, 83%

etc.. etc..

This ebook is an exhaustive study debunking all the myths and folklore that our bureaucracy have been bullshitting about to deprive our citizens of our honest to goodness RKBA..

As the link states..

Gun Facts version 5.1 Media Resources
Gun Facts is an e-book that debunks common myths about gun control. It is intended as a reference guide for journalists, activists, politicians, and other people interested in restoring honesty to the debate about guns, crime, and the 2nd Amendment.

heres the link..
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2897430

you would need to have a torrent downloader like BitTorrent or limewire..

Jonah

[Zake]

First of all welcome back Jonah !! Have seen you in the posts for a while !

And thanks for the book, it's much better to have a place where one can dip into while looking for points backed by statistics.

Regards,

Zake.

[dobhal87]

many thanks for the book

[Big Gay Al]

I've always found the source to be much better in the long run.

Gunfacts

Then again, I'm rather proud of having helped the author of Gunfacts with his publication.

[xl_target]

Big Al,
Thanks for helping in the compilation of the book/document and welcome to IFG.

[Big Gay Al]

Yeah, for whatever reason, Guy Smith, the author, gets a big kick out of using my nick name in the credits section, instead of my real name. I figure he's either a South Park fan, like I am, or there's someone he's trying to antagonize. I'm just not sure which.