BJS and the
FBI < regarding gang related violence.
Claims of violence commited by
legally obtained weapons i.e. obtaining a weapon through a surrogate is
illegal are null and void. If a firearm is purchased with the knowledge to commit harm or given to a felon the sale is illegal and thus the weapon is authorized to be seized by the state. Criminality does not follow the law.
Please note, that the FBI also touches on the issue of gangs obtaining
military grade weaponry within the article. Citizens
cannot legally obtain military grade weaponry unless otherwise authorized to do so. see: contractor.
What is military grade weaponry? Machine guns, high-grade explosives, armor-piercing rounds and/or shells and/or other items otherwise restricted for sale to the military or police department fields.
Gang activity has increased in California, Illinois and Nevada particularly, according to the aforementioned BJS link. Texas estimates that a whopping 90% of their violent crime comes from criminals.
Arguments against gun bans reducing suicide rates:
suicide.org.
Note the United States ranks 43rd, behind countries like France, Germany, Japan, Poland, South Korea, China and Romania. All of which have stricter firearm regulation than the US.
Romania has some of the toughest gun laws in the world. They maintain a higher rate in suicide than the US. Private citizens are typically not allowed to own firearms, unless otherwise authorized by the state.
Romania has a murder rate of 1.5 per 100,000 persons. Australia has 1.2 per 100,000 persons.
Kazakstan has 7.8 per 100,000. The
US has 4.5 murders per 100,000 persons.
Please prepare a rebuttal. For this criteria, please prepare an argument that utilizes suicide data tables and not tables regarding homicide or tables that include all firearm related deaths, as they would be inaccurate.
Which firearms? Rifles? I have sourced and linked the FBI's database, which is free and accurate, they found that rifles make up roughly 0.03:1 (.03 for every other gun murder according to 2009's data table) of homicides using fire arms
here.
As you can see, rifles are negligent in terms of homicide use. Keep in mind, this table is 1:1 and not reduced to fractions nor percentages i.e actual numbers.
If raw data is too advanced, here is an article from the New York Times, regarding the
September 13th 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.
For the record, I dislike using articles as sources as they are almost always 3rd party and get their information from elsewhere, in this case, the FBI.
@Greywind: If you have a data table compiled by an official governmental entity regarding mass shootings I would very much like to see it. I have yet to see one that eclipses handgun homicides.
Do note, the FBI finds that roughly
80% all firearm homicides are gang and/or drug related.
Please prepare a proper rebuttal utilizing data from a governmental agency specilized in United States law and criminality. Statistics from other countries regarding firearm homicide and gang activity do not correlate properly and are inaccurate.
Criminal activity is the question here. How to prevent criminals from obtaining firearms illegally?
