Others were peeved too
In an update to this idiotic piece by Maureen Downey, readers at AJC respond with the obvious:
Blaming the crime rate in New York and other gun-restrictive cities, such as Washington, D.C., on legal gun laws in other areas is the anti-gun lobby’s stock argument. They never suggest that the super-strict banning of weapons in these cities leads to higher crime rates in these cities.
August 10th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
The notion that guns cause crime is absurd, and it doesn’t take much intellect to see right through it. If the flow of guns from Virginia are what’s causing high crime rates in New York, why aren’t there high crime rates in Virginia?
August 10th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
I actually exchanged e-mails with her, and she threatened to cancel her family vacation to East Tn.
Don’t know about you, but it suits me.
As for me, I don’t think that I’ll be going to Atlanta anytime soon – too much crime.
As an aside, since everyone on both sides of the 2A equation seems to like finding statistics to support their respective sides, has anyone ever thought to do a demographic assessment on the corolation of minority population to crime?
I know that we are all aware of that dynamic, but no one wants to admit it.
Mentioning it is kind of like quoting “The Bell Curve”, which came out about 10 years ago and concluded that asians and whites outpace blacks on standardized tests.
Even uttering the potential of such a corolation would likely constitute a hate thought or hate speech under the EU Constitution (at least the current draft of it – on page 431).
I don’t care if someone is black, white, brown or yellow.
I care whether he or she is a productive, law-abiding member of society.
Someone needs to do the demographic assessment and circulate the results.
Facts are just facts, they are not racist.
I wonder whether anyone at the Atlanta Journal Constituion has the journalistic courage (admitted oxymoron) to follow my suggestion and publish the results.
August 10th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Chris:
See here for blacks and crime:
Homicide Offender Rate/100,000 by Race in US (2000):
* 3.4 – White
* 25.8 – Black
* 3.2 – Other
Homicide Victim Rate/100,000 by Race in US (2000):
* 3.3 – White
* 20.5 – Black
* 2.7 – Other
Sadly, it seems black people kill black people.
August 10th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
Say Uncle: on October 10, 2002 the AJC published an article about the ATF arresting local people for making straw purchases of guns that ended up at NYC crime scenes. The title was “College Students Risk Future for Gun Trade”. The article was never followed up.