The Amazing Juxatposition

The news within the last 24 hours contains two articles which juxatpose the creeping dictatorship of the Left with the science of gun control.

Science of gun control? A study published by the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy is on it (pretty amazing in itself):

According to Awr Hawkins at Breitbart,

” A Harvard Study titled "Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?" looks at figures for "intentional deaths" throughout continental Europe and juxtaposes them with the U.S. to show that more gun control does not necessarily lead to lower death rates or violent crime.

Because the findings so clearly demonstrate that more gun laws may in fact increase death rates, the study says that "the mantra that more guns mean more deaths and that fewer guns, therefore, mean fewer deaths" is wrong.

For example, when the study shows numbers for Eastern European gun ownership and corresponding murder rates, it is readily apparent that less guns to do not mean less death. In Russia, where the rate of gun ownership is 4,000 per 100,000 inhabitants, the murder rate was 20.52 per 100,000 in 2002. That same year in Finland, where the rater of gun ownership is exceedingly higher--39,000 per 100,000--the murder rate was almost nill, at 1.98 per 100,000.

Looking at Western Europe, the study shows that Norway "has far and away Western Europe's highest household gun ownership rate (32%), but also its lowest murder rate."

And when the study focuses on intentional deaths by looking at the U.S. vs Continental Europe, the findings are no less revealing. The U.S., which is so often labeled as the most violent nation in the world by gun control proponents, comes in 7th--behind Russia, Estonia, Lativa, Lithuania, Belarus, and the Ukraine--in murders. America also only ranks 22nd in suicides.

The murder rate in Russia, where handguns are banned, is 30.6; the rate in the U.S. is 7.8.

The authors of the study conclude that the burden of proof rests on those who claim more guns equal more death and violent crime; such proponents should "at the very least [be able] to show a large number of nations with more guns have more death and that nations that impose stringent gun controls have achieved substantial reductions in criminal violence (or suicide)." But after intense study the authors conclude "those correlations are not observed when a large number of nations are compared around the world."

In fact, the numbers presented in the Harvard study support the contention that among the nations studied, those with more gun control tend toward higher death rates.”

Here is a table from the study:
    Table 1: European Gun Ownership and Murder Rates
    (rates given are per 100,000 people and in descending order)
    Nation           Murder Rate       Rate of Gun Ownership
    Russia           20.54 [2002]           4,000
    Luxembourg   9.01 [2002]            c. 0
    Hungary         2.22 [2003]            2,000
    Finland          1.98 [2004]           39,000
    Sweden         1.87 [2001]           24,000
    Poland           1.79 [2003]             1,500
    France           1.65 [2003]           30,000
    Denmark       1.21 [2003]           19,000
    Greece          1.12 [2003]           11,000
    Switzerland   0.99 [2003]           16,000
    Germany       0.93 [2003]           30,000
    Norway         0.81 [2001]           36,000
    Austria          0.80 [2002]           17,000

The Leftist claim that guns are the responsible party for murders, is wrong.

Also in an AP news article by By Josh Lederman is Obama, who can’t get gun control out of Congress, so he makes his own laws:

”WASHINGTON (AP) — Striving to take action where Congress would not, the Obama administration announced new steps Thursday on gun control, curbing the import of military surplus weapons and proposing to close a little-known loophole that lets felons and others circumvent background checks by registering guns to corporations.

Four months after a gun control drive collapsed spectacularly in the Senate, President Barack Obama added two more executive actions to a list of 23 steps the White House determined Obama could take on his own to reduce gun violence. With the political world focused on Mideast tensions and looming fiscal battles, the move signaled Obama's intent to show he hasn't lost sight of the cause he took up after 20 first graders and six adults were gunned down last year in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

Vice President Joe Biden, Obama's point-man on gun control after the Newtown tragedy thrust guns into the national spotlight, unveiled the new actions Thursday at the White House.
"It's simple, it's straightforward, it's common sense," Biden said in the Roosevelt Room.

One new policy will end a government practice that lets military weapons, sold or donated by the U.S. to allies, be reimported into the U.S. by private entities, where some may end up on the streets. The White House said the U.S. has approved 250,000 of those guns to be reimported since 2005; under the new policy, only museums and a few other entities like the government will be eligible to reimport military-grade firearms.”

There is little question that gun control is seen to be a win/win for the Left: they hate guns despite any demurrals to the contrary. And they really despise the flyovers and bitter clingers who have guns and like to shoot them. Further, pitchforks and torches don't apply any more, so they now have an abject fear of guns and those who might be seen as threatening their creeping dictatorship.

There is also little question that the Left is ideologically "science oriented" only when it is in regards to evolution; they will not approve of this published finding which has actual evidence as science. The probability is that they will produce manufactured "data" of their own which they will publish in the MSM to combat this information. Where there is no Truth, there are no lies (only tactics).

And don't forget: Obama is the contented killer of American citizens, who were assassinated without a trial (along with innocent collateral damage: just folks). He is also an obvious liar about domestic spying and shipping ARs and AKs to Mexican drug lords - some of which were "reimported" and used in domestic murders; and his government minions attack his political enemies for him; he is all set up "to rule" as he put it in '08.