muddywings
02-25-2013, 17:55
I found this article about the "Blade Runner" and his murder charges interesting:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/23/world/africa/south-africa-gun-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2
The statement I found most interesting was, "In 2000, South Africa passed the Firearms Control Act. Since then, violence by handguns, Taylor said, has dropped (http://www.africacheck.org/reports/did-gun-control-cause-fall-in-gun-crime-the-data-backs-the-claim/) steadily, often by double digits (http://www.gca.org.za/HomePage/tabid/1120/ctl/Details/mid/8209/ItemID/1163/language/en-US/Default.aspx)."
Please note, "Since then, violence by handguns, Taylor said, has dropped (http://www.africacheck.org/reports/did-gun-control-cause-fall-in-gun-crime-the-data-backs-the-claim/) steadily, often by double digits (http://www.gca.org.za/HomePage/tabid/1120/ctl/Details/mid/8209/ItemID/1163/language/en-US/Default.aspx)." And see how they don't say the stat on just violence but specifically point out gun violence? There is CNN for you.
The Gunpolicy.org website they reference was pretty interesting too when you start comparing USA and SA.
Start comparing gun ownership-
USA: 88 per 100
SA: 12.7 per 100
Rate of gun deaths (2009)
USA: 10.22 per 100K
SA: 33.8 per 100K
Rate of all Homicides (2009) [what I ultimately care about]
USA: 5.48 per 100K
SA: 33.8 per 100K [Wow2]
I guess that's why, "In the past year, more than 50% of South Africans told the country's police force (http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2012/downloads/crime_statistics_presentation.pdf) that they're afraid. The number of home burglaries across the country of 50 million have more than doubled. They totaled 9,063 in a 12-month period spanning 2002/2003; seven years later, it was up 18,786. And in a similar period ending in 2012, reported break-ins dipped to 16,766, according to South Africa's crime reporting body, the Institute for Security Studies (http://www.issafrica.org/).'
Sorry, I couldn't post the whole thing without a bunch of formatting and of course I'm not telling anybody in here something they don't know. I also haven't done the research on how scientific and unbiased gunpolicy.org is but I have my suspicion.
Post is more a geewizz and maybe a quick reference for when I hear about how safe all these countries are that went and banned guns. I'm going to go dig for some other countries later.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/23/world/africa/south-africa-gun-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2
The statement I found most interesting was, "In 2000, South Africa passed the Firearms Control Act. Since then, violence by handguns, Taylor said, has dropped (http://www.africacheck.org/reports/did-gun-control-cause-fall-in-gun-crime-the-data-backs-the-claim/) steadily, often by double digits (http://www.gca.org.za/HomePage/tabid/1120/ctl/Details/mid/8209/ItemID/1163/language/en-US/Default.aspx)."
Please note, "Since then, violence by handguns, Taylor said, has dropped (http://www.africacheck.org/reports/did-gun-control-cause-fall-in-gun-crime-the-data-backs-the-claim/) steadily, often by double digits (http://www.gca.org.za/HomePage/tabid/1120/ctl/Details/mid/8209/ItemID/1163/language/en-US/Default.aspx)." And see how they don't say the stat on just violence but specifically point out gun violence? There is CNN for you.
The Gunpolicy.org website they reference was pretty interesting too when you start comparing USA and SA.
Start comparing gun ownership-
USA: 88 per 100
SA: 12.7 per 100
Rate of gun deaths (2009)
USA: 10.22 per 100K
SA: 33.8 per 100K
Rate of all Homicides (2009) [what I ultimately care about]
USA: 5.48 per 100K
SA: 33.8 per 100K [Wow2]
I guess that's why, "In the past year, more than 50% of South Africans told the country's police force (http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2012/downloads/crime_statistics_presentation.pdf) that they're afraid. The number of home burglaries across the country of 50 million have more than doubled. They totaled 9,063 in a 12-month period spanning 2002/2003; seven years later, it was up 18,786. And in a similar period ending in 2012, reported break-ins dipped to 16,766, according to South Africa's crime reporting body, the Institute for Security Studies (http://www.issafrica.org/).'
Sorry, I couldn't post the whole thing without a bunch of formatting and of course I'm not telling anybody in here something they don't know. I also haven't done the research on how scientific and unbiased gunpolicy.org is but I have my suspicion.
Post is more a geewizz and maybe a quick reference for when I hear about how safe all these countries are that went and banned guns. I'm going to go dig for some other countries later.