I'm sure they worked very hard on it, but this reminds me of the landmark study concluding that people who are sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex tend to wear scents (perfume or cologne) that appeal MORE to their preferred gender than to their own. Also, water is wet.
>>Hamill took his team’s findings one step further. Not only do anti-gun laws targeting law-abiding citizens do nothing to reduce crime, he said, they may actually lead to more crime, because such laws reduce the deterrent affect that an armed citizenry poses to criminals by making it more difficult for the good guys to get guns.
Not only are people less able to respond to violent crime with armed force, but the PERCEPTION of criminals is affected. In areas with laws that limit an individual's access to firearms for self-defense, the PERCEPTION of criminals is that victims are less likely to be armed. This becomes part of their evaluation of the risk of committing a crime. Seeing that the risk is apparently lower, criminals will be more likely to attempt crimes.
Wright and Rossi did a study of convicted felons for the Department of Justice decades ago. The consensus among convicted felons is that a "smart criminal tries to find out if his victim is armed". About half admitted that they aborted a criminal attempt because they thought their intended victim might be armed. This is not about the reality of facing an armed victim. It's only about the PERCEPTION. In areas where firearms are freely accessible to law-abiding people, even those who are NOT armed enjoy a measure of protection by reason of the criminals' belief that they MIGHT be armed.
Those advocating to disarm American citizens also enjoy this protection. If they were honest advocates, they would post signs at their homes reading,
Needing to publish a peer-reviewed study for common sense can really tell people a lot about where the progressive Left has 'progressed'.
In the 50's and 60's people were warned that drugs would harm your brain and your offspring as well. A large majority of the people in this country are offspring of people that used drugs (alcohol IS a drug and will hurt babies in the womb).
I don't think I'll ever see a study published about how much trouble THAT has caused, but it's one that may appear long after all of us have left.
It's somewhat comforting, I suppose, for academics to finally document what everyone already knew, and when I say "everyone" I mean EVERYONE: Gun-hating scumorats have always known there's absolutely no relationship between gun sales and crime.
They don't give a damn about crime and never have. Their interest in guns is and always has been knowing tyrants face serious problems when attempting to convert an armed population into a one-party dictatorship, which has been their goal ever since the Constitution-hating demagogue Andrew Jackson founded the scumorat party.
Oh...you thought "Old Hickory" was an American hero, right? Wrong. He was a hot-headed lunatic who didn't give a damn about anyone or anything so long as he got his way.
Dr. Michael Todd Landis, an assistant professor of history at Tarleton State University, makes a compelling case that Jackson solidly exhibited four attributes of a demagogue:
1. Disregard for laws and autocratic behavior;
2. Condemnation of the established government and use of outsider rhetoric;
Give it some serious thought and you can apply those four attributes to several more scumorat presidents - Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, William J. Clinton, Barack Ocommie and especially the senile buffoon illegitimately occupying the White House right now as the result of a blatantly and criminally stolen election.
I'm sure they worked very hard on it, but this reminds me of the landmark study concluding that people who are sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex tend to wear scents (perfume or cologne) that appeal MORE to their preferred gender than to their own. Also, water is wet.
>>Hamill took his team’s findings one step further. Not only do anti-gun laws targeting law-abiding citizens do nothing to reduce crime, he said, they may actually lead to more crime, because such laws reduce the deterrent affect that an armed citizenry poses to criminals by making it more difficult for the good guys to get guns.
Not only are people less able to respond to violent crime with armed force, but the PERCEPTION of criminals is affected. In areas with laws that limit an individual's access to firearms for self-defense, the PERCEPTION of criminals is that victims are less likely to be armed. This becomes part of their evaluation of the risk of committing a crime. Seeing that the risk is apparently lower, criminals will be more likely to attempt crimes.
Wright and Rossi did a study of convicted felons for the Department of Justice decades ago. The consensus among convicted felons is that a "smart criminal tries to find out if his victim is armed". About half admitted that they aborted a criminal attempt because they thought their intended victim might be armed. This is not about the reality of facing an armed victim. It's only about the PERCEPTION. In areas where firearms are freely accessible to law-abiding people, even those who are NOT armed enjoy a measure of protection by reason of the criminals' belief that they MIGHT be armed.
Those advocating to disarm American citizens also enjoy this protection. If they were honest advocates, they would post signs at their homes reading,
***** THIS IS A GUN-FREE HOME. *****
YOU WILL NOT BE SHOT IF YOU DECIDE
TO BEAT, ROB, RAPE, STAB, TORTURE
OR KILL SOMEONE WHO LIVES HERE.
In other news, water is wet...
Needing to publish a peer-reviewed study for common sense can really tell people a lot about where the progressive Left has 'progressed'.
In the 50's and 60's people were warned that drugs would harm your brain and your offspring as well. A large majority of the people in this country are offspring of people that used drugs (alcohol IS a drug and will hurt babies in the womb).
I don't think I'll ever see a study published about how much trouble THAT has caused, but it's one that may appear long after all of us have left.
It's somewhat comforting, I suppose, for academics to finally document what everyone already knew, and when I say "everyone" I mean EVERYONE: Gun-hating scumorats have always known there's absolutely no relationship between gun sales and crime.
They don't give a damn about crime and never have. Their interest in guns is and always has been knowing tyrants face serious problems when attempting to convert an armed population into a one-party dictatorship, which has been their goal ever since the Constitution-hating demagogue Andrew Jackson founded the scumorat party.
Oh...you thought "Old Hickory" was an American hero, right? Wrong. He was a hot-headed lunatic who didn't give a damn about anyone or anything so long as he got his way.
Dr. Michael Todd Landis, an assistant professor of history at Tarleton State University, makes a compelling case that Jackson solidly exhibited four attributes of a demagogue:
1. Disregard for laws and autocratic behavior;
2. Condemnation of the established government and use of outsider rhetoric;
3. Employs lies and fear tactics;
4. Incites violence.
It's a real mind-opener:
https://s-usih.org/2016/10/the-case-against-andrew-jackson/
Give it some serious thought and you can apply those four attributes to several more scumorat presidents - Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, William J. Clinton, Barack Ocommie and especially the senile buffoon illegitimately occupying the White House right now as the result of a blatantly and criminally stolen election.