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Reasons for gun control | 6o8

6o8.org11/21/11

This matter has raised many questions like those involving the required restrictions and by the constitutions, the connection about the crime control and gun control as well as the rates at which the gun control have on vices …

PERSPECTIVE: More guns does not mean more crime | Star-Exponent

www2.starexponent.com8/18/11

PERSPECTIVE: More guns does not mean more crime. By: Richmond … More guns might not lead to less crime; deterrence is a very hard thing to prove. But this much is clear: More guns do not lead to more crime. Virginia's …

Do more handguns equal more or less violent crime?

I was recently surprised to read that,

"States with Higher Percentages of Gun Owners Have Less Violent Crime".

And even more surprised to read that …

"Most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws, States reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%.

And if those states that did not permit concealed handgun in 1992 had permitted them back then, citizens might have been spared approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults and 12,000 robberies.

To put it even more simply: Criminals, we found, respond rationally to deterrence threats!".

I’d always been against people having guns, but if the above is true then I was wrong.

So would it really be better if our civilan societies were armed with guns?

Union Bank and KCET Honor Twelve Local Heroes | Press …

www.kcet.org10/13/11

14th Annual Local Heroes Awards Celebration. LOS ANGELES (October 13, 2011) – As part of its ongoing commitment to cultural diversity, Union Bank, N.A., has partnered with public television station KCET to honor 12 …

Good Samaritans Stop Serial Killer | LA Guardian Angels

laguardianangels.org1/16/12

There are countless examples “the bystander effect” in which people can do nothing at all to stop a crime in progress, or lend a hand when it is so obviously needed. It's easy to throw stones and say that those people “should …

A brave Texas woman chased three men who tried to steal three cases of beer from Walmart, and somewhat ironically, the heroine’s name is Monique Lawless.

On Sunday, she watched three men walk out of the store without paying for the cases of beers they had in tow, and being determined to stop them, Lawless told the clerk to watch her purse.

The 5-foot-nothing, 125-pound woman followed the men into the parking lot, jumped onto the car’s hood and tried to kick the windshield in, while yelling, “You punks, you are not going to get away with this”.

The men, all brothers ranging from 19-to-21-years-old, laughed and allegedly hit the gas, causing her to fall off the car; but not before she grabbed the driver’s side door handle and was dragged along the pavement.

Police later found the men, who now face charges of evading arrest and aggravated robbery.

Lawless said, “I told the cashier, ‘Hey those kids aren’t paying for their beers, someone should do something. Just watch my purse’”.

Lawless, who suffered a bruised nose and two black eyes during the incident, said “the men were so smug about the robbery”, but asked if she would respond in the same way again, Lawless replied: “Not probably to that extreme. I wouldn’t jump on a vehicle like that again, no”.

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