[zz] Study Reveals Astonishing Link Between Firearms, Crime & Gun Control

oldben

Harvard University Study Reveals Astonishing Link Between Firearms, Crime and Gun Control
-- the more guns a nation has, the less criminal activity.

http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Articles/Harvard-University-Study-Reveals-Astonishing-Link.aspx?p=1

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“Criminologists of all political persuasions, in over a dozen studies,” writes Bach,
“estimate that firearms are used for protection against criminals several hundred thousand to 2.5 million times per year,
often without a shot fired.
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QuiMi

Great find. Thanks.

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jhe123

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The popular assertion that the United States has the industrialized world’s highest murder rate, says the Harvard study, is a throwback to the Cold War when Russian murder rates were nearly four times higher than American rates. In a strategic disinformation campaign, the U.S. was painted worldwide as a gunslinging nightmare of street violence – far worse than what was going on in Russia. The line was repeated so many times that many believed it to be true. Now, many still do.
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