tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post4001588989450555794..comments2024-02-26T17:13:18.702-06:00Comments on DemoCurmudgeon: Republicans have gone from a political party, to a social media club for Sociopaths!! Democurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336177394503335112noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183447461205976739.post-41634692459573804562017-11-08T21:40:44.231-06:002017-11-08T21:40:44.231-06:00Since every gun show takes place entirely within t...Since every gun show takes place entirely within the boundaries of a single state, Congress has no legitimate constitutional basis, under its “interstate commerce” power, to attempt to control gun shows.<br /><br />No part of the United States Constitution empowers the federal government to regulate non-commercial, intrastate transfers of legal firearms types between private citizens.<br /><br />Unadjusted for population, the number of murders in Dallas in 1991 was 500. The number of murders in Dallas in 2012 was 154. The drastic reduction is mainly due to more people arming and protecting themselves.<br /><br />Guns save lives. Criminals kill people. Libtards freak out over things they are uninformed about.<br /><br />Gun laws don't reduce crime.<br /><br />"Around the world, from Australia to England, countries that have recently strengthened gun-control laws with the promise of lowering crime have instead seen violent crime soar.<br /><br /> In the four years after the United Kingdom banned handguns in 1996, gun crime rose by an astounding 40 percent.<br /><br /> Since Australia's 1996 laws banning most guns and making it a crime to use a gun defensively, armed robberies rose by 51 percent, unarmed robberies by 37 percent, assaults by 24 percent and kidnappings by 43 percent.<br /><br /> While murders in Australia fell by 3 percent, manslaughter rose by 16 percent. <br /><br />Finally, he notes, there exists not one single academic study showing that the federal Brady Act, assault-weapons bans, state waiting periods, background checks, one-gun-a-month rules or safe-storage laws reduce violent crime. Some research even finds that these rules increase crime."<br /><br />http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=6740<br /><br />Have a nice day. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com