Countries with high gun ownership have lower murder rates

Some things it takes a while to make the circuit.

The report is 6 years old, and despite its Harvard birthplace and copious use of facts, is not likely to sway anyone in the emotional/Progressive camp.

“The long and short of it is that a small number of extremely active criminals with lengthy criminal records are responsible for the overwhelming super-majority of all gun crimes, and these criminals are psychopaths that ignore all laws.

“The study also cited a previous report that was unable to find a single gun control law implemented in the United States that is proven to reduce violent crime.”

Link from maggiesfarm and http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2013/08/holy-toledo-harvard-study-proves-that.html

Full report at http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

“Since at least 1965, the false assertion that the United States has the industrialized world’s highest murder rate has been an artifact of politically motivated Soviet minimization designed to hide the true homicide rates.”