According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2010 a total of 31,672 people died in the shooting (which is the most recent data can be found in the United States), which is a staggering figure, higher than several other western democracies Magnitude. In response, the United States how to deal with? Executive vice president of the American Rifle Association (National Rifle Association) Wayne Lapierre (Wayne LaPierre) thought he knew the answer:. "To prevent the bad guys with a gun, armed only by a good man," If La Piai Seoul refers trained, and often practice marksmanship and military police, and that this view is at least partly but if he was referring to a weapon equipped, but poorly trained civilians, he may be wrong.
Let's look at 1998 and published in the "Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery" (Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery) of a study, which states: "Every time someone in self-defense or legitimate purpose fired one shot at home, correspondingly, there are four times unintentional shooting, seven violent attacks or murder, and suicide or attempted suicide 11 times. "the gunman shot the results can always imagine that he broke into homes villains or villains tavern robbery, but this illusion has been shattered data - research indicates that a gun used in violent attacks, killing accident, suicide or homicide chance, the chance of it than 22 times higher than for self-defense. I was in the previous 20 years has always had that kind of fantasy, so prepare a pistol, which installed a hollow-point bullet, ready to anyone who dared to break into my house to pieces of the wicked, but when I learned of these statistics, I abandoned that gun.
We can also get more insight from a book published in 2013, the book called "America's gun violence reduction: policies based on evidence and analysis" (Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis), published by Johns Hopkins University Press, edited by Daniel W Webster (Daniel W. Webster) and Jon S Wei Nike (Jon S. Vernick), are the two Johns Professor Bloomberg School of public health at Johns Hopkins University, teaches health policy and health management. The book pointed out that in 2010, in addition to 31,672 people were killed, there are 73,505 people because of non-fatal bullet wound in the emergency room for treatment, and another 337,960 times violent crime committed with firearms. In that 31 672 murders, among them, 61% of suicide, and the rest of the vast majority of murder acquaintances.
For example, in 2010, 1 082 women's and 267 men killed by their partner, 54% died of gunshot. Over the past 25 years, the number of firearms homicides occur in companion more than all other means. When a woman was killed, the most likely cause of death is shot dead by her partner. Regardless of race Olympic star Oscar Pistorius (Oscar Pistorius) What killed his girlfriend's true motives are (either to her as the interloper, or anger and murder in the quarrel), her death will only temporarily occupy the newspaper headlines. Do not forget to Nancy Lanza (Nancy Lanza) fate: her Connecticut home by his son Adam Lanza (Adam Lanza) killed with was her own gun, then went to Adam Sandy Hook elementary killed more than 20 children and adults. Instead of women against violent armed men, legislators inferior to choose another path: In some states, by the men's domestic violence orders is to prohibit restrictions guns. Data show that in those states, a digital companion shot and killed a 25% reduction.
Another fact untenable in the face of "superstition" that make good marksmanship control unarmed criminals retained weapons. The authors of the Johns Hopkins University, said that was not the case: "As long as the registration of firearms dealers to implement strong regulation - including the state legislation requiring retailers registered weapons in state or local government, mandatory these retailers recorded sales, the provisions of the law enforcement officers can check the records of the sale of guns who do routine examination, and force it to report the theft or disappearance of weapons - Once done this, the state firearms dealers of firearms offenders probability hand fell by 64%. "
Finally, before we give up civilization to everyone armed to the teeth (meaning no disrespect for Rifle Association), or take a look at Steven Pinker (Steven Pinker) 2011 year book, "those kind of our nature angel "(The Better angels of Our Nature) bar. Pinker in his book recording the decline of violence for centuries, he thinks the biggest reason is the national implementation of the rule of law, the power to determine the dispute to the court, and deprived of civil justice on their own behavior instead of law enforcement the right to learn the proper use of weapons by the police and the army.
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