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    A recently released Columbia University study shows that 1 in 3 Americans are gun owners. The study was conducted by assistant professor of epidemiology Bindu Kalesan and included an examination of "gun ownership information gathered from study subjects aged 18 years old and above from all 50...
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    With the State Police declining to appeal an earlier trial court decision ordering them to release the data, the number of people who have registered assault style weapons under the SAFE Act became public on Monday. "I'm grinning from ear to ear," said Rochester lawyer Paloma Capana, who...
  3. Laws and Politics - Firearms/Self Defense/Weapons
    Gun banners manipulate statistics to cover for SAFE Act failures | Western Free Press "There are two things to do when you've made a political calculation that backfires. The techniques apply regardless of whether it's a law you've touted that caused unintended consequences or when an appointee...
  4. Laws and Politics - Firearms/Self Defense/Weapons
    Gun statistics are irrelevant to the Second Amendment | Washington Times Communities "Statistics are irrelevant to the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment protects each individual's right to keep and bear arms. Even the Supreme Court agrees, its abysmal record protecting individual rights...
  5. Firearms in the News
    The Firearms Statistics That Gun Control Advocates Don't Want to See | TheBlaze.com Let's all copy this and send it to Obama, Cuomo and even Skelos..
  6. Laws and Politics - Firearms/Self Defense/Weapons
    I know Yaegar is a controversial guy, but check out these statistics: Our Newest Instructor James Owens - Rape Prevention - YouTube but at least our state is keeping our wives and daughters SAFE, by giving them seven shots and "sportsmans" permits.
  7. Laws and Politics - Firearms/Self Defense/Weapons
    I've been doing some research but feel free to jump in if desired, but I think they should show stats of people who successfully defended them selfs and family members compared to the bad gun violence I could almost gaurantee its just as close if not more. But now thinking having said that I...
  8. Firearms in the News
    This was written by a former prosecutor for WDC. (During the DC gun ban that was the reason for "Heller") Jeffrey Scott Shapiro: A Gun Ban That Misfired - WSJ.com
  9. Laws and Politics - Firearms/Self Defense/Weapons
    Good article on the WSJ... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...valettop_email By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. And ANDREW M. GROSSMAN Could there be a better illustration of the cultural divide over firearms than the White House photograph of our skeet-shooting president? Clay pigeons are launched...
  10. Firearms in the News
    on when the last time someone in NY was shot and killed by a Modern Sporting rifle, even a hunting accident? How often is a Modern Sporting rifle used in crime in NYS I can find national results but not state?
  11. Laws and Politics - Firearms/Self Defense/Weapons
    Choose Your Own Crime Stats - YouTube Just got this in an email thought i would share. I like how he calmy put the numbers to work
  12. Laws and Politics - Firearms/Self Defense/Weapons
    Pretty good video - the guy brings in some good points about statistics that are never mentioned and properly compares several .... all without coming across like a nut job ....
  13. Laws and Politics - Firearms/Self Defense/Weapons
    I decided to hit up the FBI website to look at the numbers straight from the horse's mouth. What I found was quite interesting. I'm an engineer, so I work best with pictures, so I made up a spreadsheet of the data. I first looked at the violent crime rate (per 100,000 people) from 1960 to...
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    Please, Watch Video (link below) This guy gives a brief, but very descriptive analysis of the current crime statistics and how the media/politicians are using them incorrectly to fit their agenda. He basically shows that violent crime has dramatically decreased over the years within the United...
  15. Laws and Politics - Firearms/Self Defense/Weapons
    First, if this post shouldn't be in this forum, let me know, but I wasn't sure where else to do it. OK, so I have really been looking at stats around various items, and thought I'd add some color and post it here, even though there shouldn't be any surprises. Disclaimer: stats are a hobby, I'm...
  16. Firearms in the News
    Respect for the fallen officers. These stats can be used to pursue anti-gun laws in states and Mr. Holder is all about it. I would also like to know the stats for normal civilians that have been killed by guns and how many killed were by felons, randoms, mass, etc before any laws are passed...
  17. Firearms in the News
    I like the part about the crime statistics......an armed society is a polite (and safe) society. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/staten_island/shoot_si_ers_sure_love_guns_wk5nm9dlUl0MdZMkk42n3K
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    Misleading Mexican gun statistics Reporting on President Obama's visit to Mexico, the Washington Post parrots both governments' line that 90% of guns confiscated from the drug lords originate in the U.S. They're all shooting blanks. http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12381
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