GunFacts Hasn’t Any (8)
Brief one. Page 11:
.Myth: Gun registration will help police find suspects
Fact: Registration is required in Hawaii, Chicago, and Washington D.C. Yet there has not been a single case where registration was instrumental in identifying someone who committed a crime.65 Criminals very rarely leave their guns at the scene of the crime. Would-be criminals also virtually never get licenses or register their weapons
Author cites the infamous John Lott. Which is interesting since Lott acknowledges registered guns are used in crimes but rarely.
To debunk this myth, I need cite only one case to render it bogus.
The argument by the author is something of a strawman; one of gun registration’s byproducts is to assist law enforcement in criminal investigations. But there are other advantages of registration such as weeding out those who should not have access to firearms.
Broken link to your citation. Still I think your dictionary is missing the word “rarely”. Nobody in their right mind says “registered guns are NEVER used in crime”. But of course the vast majority of crime guns aren’t registered to the criminal who uses them.
Comment by Freddy — January 8, 2008 @ 4:51 am
Your link isn’t working. Any chance there is a mirror somewhere?
Comment by Gregory Morris — January 8, 2008 @ 8:19 am
Shame Gage’s troops didn’t seize the guns & powder,on that march to Lexington, then perhaps we just wouldn’t have to deal with these pesky Right’s issues allowing the subjects to have guns!
Comment by JDFAR — January 8, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
Glad to see you fixed the link, that’s why we should only allow law enforcement to have guns
Comment by JDFAR — January 8, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
From Guncite.com
On September 15th, 1988, a 13-year veteran of the Dayton, Ohio police department, Patrolman Roger Waller, then 32, used his fully automatic MAC-11 .380 caliber submachine gun to kill a police informant, 52-year-old Lawrence Hileman. Patrolman Waller pleaded guilty in 1990, and he and an accomplice were sentenced to 18 years in prison. The 1986 ‘ban’ on sales of new machine guns does not apply to purchases by law enforcement or government agencies.
Please tell me how registration solved this?
The gun was not left at the scene, the Officer involved, actually called it in, but the evidence did not support his claims.
Comment by JDFAR — January 8, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
Who says the anti-gun movement can’t make an argument with facts and without emotional appeal!
Makes perfect sence if you don’t look to hard!
Comment by Freddy — January 9, 2008 @ 7:40 am