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Politics : The 2nd Amendment-- The Facts........ -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Turboe who wrote (32)	6/28/1998 5:07:00 PM
From: PAT JENNING	Respond to of 10167

Turboe, I read your link. Did I miss the place where the study acknowledged that many other factors were changing during the same period that the gun laws changed? For instance, a decreasing youth population or increase in incarceration rates? Despite the general paranoia about crime evident in the news media these days, murder rates and crime rates overall have been on the downswing over the past decade, and not just in states and counties that have liberalized their right to carry laws. Does the study take this into account? Maybe I missed it, as I read it quickly. Pat

To: Turboe who wrote (32)	6/28/1998 5:20:00 PM
From: Little Engine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10167

<<<<While in previous Dept. of Justice research 74% of criminals interviewed agreed they would avoid burglarizing occupied homes for fear of being shot by an armed homeowner....>>>> I love this oft-quoted B.S.! Only 74 percent would avoid being shot at? What's wrong with the rest of them? They must be truly psychotic. How many burglars look for occupied homes to ransack? What are good things to steal from homes? Hmmm... something you could sell for quick money, that you would love to go get if you knew the owner were not home? Guns, maybe? New York City doesn't have any "right to carry" laws, yet its crime rate has dropped a lot more than 7% in the past few years.