{"id":22389,"date":"2013-01-14T18:14:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T23:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=22389"},"modified":"2013-01-14T18:37:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T23:37:44","slug":"5-surprising-facts-about-guns-schools-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2013\/01\/5-surprising-facts-about-guns-schools-and-violence.html","title":{"rendered":"5 Surprising Facts About Guns, Schools, And Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What every legislator &#8211; and citizen &#8211; needs to know.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5 Facts About Guns, Schools, &amp; Violence\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6lyunRYMenY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>See below for text transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Video Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/reasontv\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/reason.com\/reasontv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p><strong>Fact #1 &#8211;<\/strong> <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\">Vice President Joe Biden will present his recommendations for new gun control legislation tomorrow. But according to a new poll by Gallup, there is relatively little public demand for additional restrictions to our Second Amendment rights.\u00a0 The poll found that just 38% of adults are dissatisfied with current gun laws and want stricter legislation. Forty-three percent of the public is satisfied with current laws, while another 5% is dissatisfied and wants less strict laws. That&#8217;s 48%-to-38% against new laws limiting Second Amendment freedoms. &#8211; Gary Bauer, <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\"><strong>American Values free newsletter, <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\"><strong>&#8220;Public Satisfied With Gun Laws&#8221;,<\/strong><\/span> Monday, January 14, 2013<\/strong><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouramericanvalues.org\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">VISIT <em>AMERICAN VALUES<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">Fact #2 &#8211; <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">Meanwhile: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Never forget what the <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>Mayor of Chicago, the murder capital of the world, Rahm Emanuel said<\/em><\/span> (a gun-control promoting leading Democrat <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">&#8212; and don&#8217;t forget that Chicago has the strictest gun-control laws in the USA): <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before<\/span>.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>The gun and power grabbers have in the past and continuing in the USA today want to take all your power from you &#8212; and that is your right to bear arms &#8212; to destroy the U.S. Constitution that has made America great for over 250 years! Once they have your guns, they will come for you and anyone else they think is their enemy!\u00a0 No one will be safe from their abusive power!<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact #3 &#8211; <\/strong>See Pic below&#8230;<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/01\/Gun-Control-How-many-they-murdered-Stalin-Mao-Hitler-Obama-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22392 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2013\/01\/Gun-Control-How-many-they-murdered-Stalin-Mao-Hitler-Obama-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video transcript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of December\u2019s horrific mass shooting at <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/tags\/sandy-hook-school-shooting\">Sandy Hook Elementary School<\/a> in Newtown, Connecticut, Vice President Joe Biden is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscentralga.com\/news\/local\/Obama-Proposals-to-address-gun-violence-due-by-January-184170731.html\">chairing a panel of experts<\/a>\u00a0that will make\u00a0gun-control recommendations to President Barack Obama by the end of the month. The president has said that enacting new restrictions on\u00a0guns\u00a0will be one of his highest priorities.<\/p>\n<p>No one wants to ever again see anything like the senseless slaughter of 26 people \u2013 including 20 children &#8211; at a school.\u00a0But as legislators turn toward creating new gun\u00a0laws, here are five facts they need to know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Violent crime \u2013 including violent crime using\u00a0guns\u00a0\u2013 has dropped massively over the past 20 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/12\/15\/4-archetypally-awful-reactions-to-sandy\/singlepage\"> The violent crime rate<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; which includes murder, rape, and beatings &#8211; is half of what it was in the early 1990s. And the violent crime rate involving the <a href=\"http:\/\/bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/cv11.pdf\">use of weapons<\/a> has also declined at a similar pace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Mass shootings have not increased in recent years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite terrifying events like Sandy Hook or last summer\u2019s theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/are-mass-shootings-becoming-more-common\"> mass shootings are not becoming more frequent<\/a>. \u201cThere is no pattern, there is no increase,\u201d says criminologist James Allen Fox of Northeastern University, who studies the issue. Other data shows that mass killings peaked in 1929.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Schools are getting safer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Across the board, schools are less dangerous than they used be. <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/crimeindicators\/crimeindicators2011\/tables\/table_02_1.asp\"> Over the past 20 years<\/a>, the rate of theft per 1,000 students dropped from 101 to 18. For violent crime, the victimization rate per 1,000 students dropped from 53 to 14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. There Are More\u00a0Guns\u00a0in Circulation Than Ever Before.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the past 20 years, virtually every state in the country has liberalized\u00a0gunownership rules and many states have expanded concealed carry laws <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/12\/15\/4-archetypally-awful-reactions-to-sandy\/singlepage\"> that allow more people to carry weapons<\/a> in more places. There around 300 million\u00a0guns\u00a0in the United States and at least one\u00a0gun\u00a0in about 45 percent of all households. Yet the rate of\u00a0gun-related crime continues to drop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u201cAssault Weapons Bans\u201d Are Generally Ineffective.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While many people are calling for reinstating the federal ban on assault weapons \u2013 an arbitrary category of\u00a0guns\u00a0that <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/26\/assault-weapons-vs-so-called-modern-spor\"> has no clear definition<\/a> \u2013 research shows it would have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncjrs.gov\/pdffiles1\/nij\/grants\/204431.pdf\">no effect on crime and violence<\/a>. \u201cShould it be renewed,\u201d concludes a definitive study, \u201cthe ban\u2019s effects on\u00a0gun\u00a0violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is as horrifing a crime as can be imagined. It rips at the country\u2019s heart and the call to action is strong and righteous. But as Joe Biden and his panel of experts consider changes to gun\u00a0laws and school-safety policies, they need to lead with their heads and not just their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past dozen years, too many policies \u2013 the Patriot Act, the war in Iraq, the TARP bailouts \u2013 have been ruled by emotion and ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Passing sweeping new restrictions on Second Amendment rights won\u2019t heal the pain and loss we all feel but just may create many more problems in our future.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Nick Gillespie. Produced by Amanda C. Winkler. Additional camera work by Joshua Swain.<\/p>\n<p>About 2.30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What every legislator &#8211; and citizen &#8211; needs to know. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; See below for text transcript: Video Source: http:\/\/reason.com\/reasontv &nbsp; Fact #1 &#8211; Vice President Joe Biden will present his recommendations for new gun control legislation tomorrow. 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