To: tejek who wrote (691446 ) 1/7/2013 4:53:15 PM From: one_less 2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to I haven't used alcohol or social drugs for the past 20 years or so and I don't own a gun. I feel pretty good about making those decisions for myself. I also want other people to be able to make their own decisions about such things. Sometimes it doesn't seem fair because their are bound to be people who abuse freedoms for which the rest of us suffer. The following statistics are graphically shocking, yet a true picture of our society. So to be convincing, tejek, I would need to see some consistency in your positions, with out which my complaint about these political arguments reeking of disingenousness is validated.Statistics showing correlation between alcohol and crime (from the NCADD Fact Sheet Alcohol and Crime : Among violent crimes, the offender is far more likely to have been drinking than under the influence of other drugs, with the exception of robberies, where other drugs are likely to have been used. Alcohol is more likely to be a factor in violence, where the attacker and the victim know each other. Two-thirds of victims who were attacked by an intimate (including a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend) reported that alcohol had been involved, and only 31% of victimizations by strangers are alcohol-related. Nearly 500,000 incidents between intimates involve offenders who have been drinking; in addition, 118,000 incidents of family violence (excluding spouses) involve alcohol, as do 744,000 incidents among acquaintances. 1.4 million incidents of alcohol-related violence are committed against strangers. Individuals under age 21 were the victims in just over 13% of incidents of alcohol-related violence, and the offenders in nearly 9%. 70% of alcohol-related incidents of violence occur in the home with greatest frequency at 11:00 pm…..20% of these incidents involve the use of a weapon other than hands, fists or feet.
