Guest Post by William M Briggs: Firearm Homicides Dropping

I am permitted even when it is not a Friday to post articles written by others, as here, where Mr Briggs has prevailed upon all men of good will to come to the aid of their country. Having trampled the freedom of religion of the Roman Catholic Church, with insolent unconstitutional tyranny, our masters seek to do the same to the NRA. Two of the Bill of Rights down, eight to go. Welcome to my world, gunowners! We are all Catholics now. All the words that follow are Mr Brigg’s.
Firearm Homicides Dropping. Assault Weapons Ban Not Correlated With Decrease In Homicides. No Need For New Restrictions.

 Posted on 16 January 2013 by Briggs

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Murder in the United States1 is illegal, and has been for over two hundred years. Strong penalties, up to and including the penalty of death, are incurred by those who commit this heinous crime.

Yet, strangely, despite murder’s high illegality, there were in 2011 over 12,000 of them committed! The largest number of murders were in 1991, with nearly 25,000 of these frowned-upon unlawful incidents.

It is difficult to imagine a penalty more severe than death, so it remains a curiosity that so many murderers are found when such strong laws are in place. Perhaps this scourge can be eliminated by even tougher laws?, say death by torture? Or maybe by creating Executive Orders bypassing the hindrance of Congress and Constitutional safeguards? We must protect the children!

But never mind. Let’s instead look at the number of murders and what devices were used in their commission.

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