Harvard Study re: Gun Ownership & Crime

[Lady Di]

I'm sure none of you saw the results of this study in the mainstream media. I'm sure it would have made the front pages; however, had the results been different. A recent Harvard study confirms that reducing gun ownership by law-abiding citizens does nothing to reduce violence. The study also found that gun ownership by law-abiding citizens actually decreases crime rates. You can read the study in its entirety at this link:

http://www.theacru.org/on-the-air/Worldwide_Data_Obliterates_Notion_that_Gun_Ownersh ip_Correlates_with_Violence.pdf

[Bill of Rights]

Lady Di,

Surely you're not saying the mainstream media would deliberately withhold news from the American people to support an agenda? And are you honestly saying that Harvard found what we've all known all along?

Someone actually did a study that made some sense? Is this possible?

(Da*n, but I have a sarcastic streak tonight!)

Blessings,
M

[Lady Di]

That's exactly what I'm saying, St. Michael, and although Harvard was once considered a religious institution, it is now one of the most liberal universities in the country, which further emphasizes the weight of the study.

[VegasGeorge]

This, and other studies confirm the truth that gun ownership discourages crime and violence. But, that's an argument that relies on logic. Our opposition runs on emotion, and plays on the fears of gun ignorant people. There is no getting around the facts that gunshot wounds are ugly, and that death and destruction are regrettable. Enemies of the 2nd Amendment capitalize on those facts in promoting irrational fear, even hatred of guns and gun owners.

We have to constantly remember that the fight is not about whether guns help or hinder personal security and crime prevention. Everyone knows that guns are helpful. The fight is about who will have the power, and how much self reliance the government will tolerate in its people. The enemies of the 2nd Amendment simply do not like our society the way it was originally constituted. They want to take control, and since guns are a symbol of independence, guns have to go. Our guns, of course, not theirs.

[Lady Di]

You're absolutely right, VegasGeorge, and thanks for your comments and insight. The anti-gun lobby is not interested in facts, but rather promoting a certain agenda. Facts continue to get in their way; however, and as responsible gun owners, we should use facts like the ones in the Harvard study to educate the masses of people who remain ignorant on such matters. Teaching real history to our children is also a key to thwarting the relentless efforts of those who are hell bent on destroying our freedoms. Kids are graduating from high schools all across our country without knowing and understanding the constitution.

With these things in mind, I'll leave you with the words of John Adams:

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826)

[Lady Di]

"...nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society." --John Adams