In a bizarre world where people people continue to do more and more of what is getting them less and less of what they want, you find a passionate group called ‘gun-control advocates.’
While cities, states and countries continue to spew out data showing that gun control exacerbates crime, gun control advocates insist that they are somehow going to solve the problem by taking away guns . . . from the bad guys.
According to the data collected by the FBI and the CATO Institute:
1) 99.9% of all guns in America are not used in violent crimes.
2) 99.8% of all guns are not used in crime at all.
3) A guns is used 4 times as often in self defense as in crime and 98% of the time, it is not even fired.
4) Only 1% of the time when a gun is being used in defense, does the criminal take the gun from the defender.
5) After guns were banned in the UK, the armed robbery rate spiked over 40% and 44% in Australia. Now in Britain most robberies happen when people are home (only 30% in the U.S.).
6) Only 4% of guns used in crimes were obtained legally.
According to: thefederalistpapers
Seth Connell writes that we can leave it to the District of Corruption Columbia to put violent felons ahead of the safety of law-abiding citizens.
Despite several court rulings ordering the nation’s capitol to end the ban on concealed carry in public for self-defense, the district continues to defy the letter and spirit of the law when it comes to the right to bear arms.
However, if you’re a violent felon, you may actually get some special treatment courtesy of the local government, especially if you are a juvenile. This treatment is, literally, getting people killed.
According to The Daily Caller, Washington D.C. has a statute offering leniency to juveniles convicted of felonies. The problem is that because of how the law works, violent criminals are being put back on the streets.
The problems stem from the city’s Youth Rehabilitation Act, legislation implemented in the 1980s to provide leniency to criminal offenders under the age of 22, even violent ones, with murder convictions being the only exception. It allows judges to disregard mandatory minimums meant to dissuade criminals, often to disastrous effects. The homicide rate spiked by 54 percent in the District in 2015, and 22 of the murderers were previously sentenced for crimes under the Youth Rehabilitation Act, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.
A man released on probation in 2015 under the law was involved in the July shooting death of Deeniquia Dodds, a transgender man. Just over 120 people previously sentenced under the Youth Rehabilitation Act have subsequently been convicted of murder since 2010.
“I knew they were going to let me off easy,” Tavon Pinkney, an 18-year old convicted of homicide in 2015, told The Washington Post regarding his previous sentencing under the youth law. “Nothing changed … They just gave me the Youth Act and let me go right back out there. They ain’t really care.”
Pinkney, who is now serving 17 years, was released from prison in 2015 after serving a reduced sentence under the youth act for a robbery charge. Five months later, while on probation, Pinkney murdered Rico Myers during a drug deal in the District.
The Act, originally designed to prevent hardship for minors convicted of crimes, has severely backfired. Instead of carrying out justice for the victims of armed robberies, muggings, rapes, or murders, social “justice” has won the day. But where’s the justice for the victims of these crime that plagues the city?
It doesn’t seem to matter how many crimes are committed, how many people are put into prison, or how many innocent people are being killed without a chance to defend themselves; as long as it is difficult to own a gun.
Since the 2008 Supreme Court ruling of District of Columbia vs. Heller, D.C. residents have been able to own a handgun for protection in their home. But outside of the home you’re on your own. Don’t look to the politicians for any help on that.
The District uses an arbitrary “May-Issue” system for carry permits (like California, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York). While in California and New York, some rural counties are more respectful of the Constitution and the fundamental right to keep and bear arms, the more suburban and urban areas in these states, and the entire states of New Jersey and Maryland, are notorious for depriving residents of the fundamental right of self-protection outside the home.
The District has adopted a similar system, albeit begrudgingly, thanks to a court order in Palmer vs. District of Columbia. However, is the District complying with the meaning and intent of the order, and the Second Amendment? Of course not.
Full article: thefederalistpapers.org