Showing posts with label Murder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Murder. Show all posts

Sunday, August 11, 2024

Law in Failure: Gun Control Laws Have Little or No Effect on Murders or on Suicides

See the article.

From the article: 

The study did find, at best, a marginal difference made with regard to mandatory storage laws and suicides. However, I'd argue that sufficient education, combined with tax incentives for gun safes would probably have a similar impact.

The reason for no dip in homicide rates, though, is pretty simple. Most guns used in crimes of any kind are either obtained illegally or are purchased by people who have no criminal record and wouldn't be denied some kind of gun by any laws remotely permissible under the Second Amendment.

Because that's the case, there's absolutely no way for gun laws to have an impact. Ban semi-autos and these murders would take place with revolvers. Ban revolvers and they'd be committed with single-shot or double-barreled guns. And that's just for the sake of argument. That's me providing a scenario that assumes gun control actually impacts what criminals can get.

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Brazil: Tops in Lawyers and in Murder

Killings:


https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2016/01/29/months-before-rio-olympics-murder-rate-rises-in-brazil/#709329ff2790

Lawyers:

http://thebrazilbusiness.com/article/lawyers-and-law-schools-in-brazil


Monday, May 1, 2017

Baltimore Mayor Asks FBI to Help with Out of Control Murders. Here

My lawyer friends may be puzzled by this request, since murders are state crimes, and not federal crimes. However, I see another angle.

This lady had her police officers falsely prosecuted. As a result, the police has decided to just respond to 911 calls. They are basically, on strike. This effect is called the Ferguson Effect. Since the FBI investigated, and harassed this police and many other police departments, they are responsible for the rise in murders. The murder rate does correlate with the solution rate by the police. This effect may also apply to all crimes. The solution rate of murder in Baltimore is a bit over half what it is across the nation.

If the FBI wants to lower crime and murder, it can tear up the Consent Decrees it bullied many police departments into signing.