Obama pushing for ‘largest gun grab in American history’: NRA

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Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: No Evidence To Support More Gun Control

In their never ending battle to stop law abiding American citizens from owning firearms the anti-gun lobby will do whatever it takes to restrict Americans ownership of guns. They have shown this willingness to exploit tragedies in attempts to gain supporters while families and victims grieve, all in the name of their agenda . President Obama recently made anti-gun remarks during a memorial service for the victims of the Navy Yard Shooting.

One of the anti-gun groups arguments is that less firearms equals less violence, seems to make sense on the surface and is many times accepted as fact. But unfortunately for the anti-gun movement and fortunately for us, the anti-gun facts don't add up.

Enter  the fall issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons and Jane M. Orient, M.D. arguing that there is no evidence-based support for more gun control.  The statistics gun-control advocates cite are hand-picked from larger data sets that show no correlation between more gun laws and less violence.

The facts are since 1993, homicides with firearms and other crimes with firearms are down significantly (39 and 69 percent, respectively). Using the gun-control line of thinking, one would expect there to be significantly fewer firearms now than in 1993. Nothing could be further from the truth. That period of decreased violence actually corresponds with a substantial increase in the number of guns owned by Americans.

It seems clear those interested in reducing violent crime would be better served not by passing new laws to restrict access to firearms for law-abiding citizens, but by enforcing the laws already on the books.

Read More Here: http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/23/debunked-major-anti-gun-talking-point-rendered-useless/

U.S. Most Armed Country (with 90 guns per 100 people)

Reuters is reporting that U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.


About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

"There is roughly one firearm for every seven people worldwide. Without the United States, though, this drops to about one firearm per 10 people," it said.

India had the world's second-largest civilian gun arsenal, with an estimated 46 million firearms outside law enforcement and the military, though this represented just four guns per 100 people there. China, ranked third with 40 million privately held guns, had 3 firearms per 100 people.


Germany, France, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Russia were next in the ranking of country's overall civilian gun arsenals.

On a per-capita basis, Yemen had the second most heavily armed citizenry behind the United States, with 61 guns per 100 people, followed by Finland with 56, Switzerland with 46, Iraq with 39 and Serbia with 38.

France, Canada, Sweden, Austria and Germany were next, each with about 30 guns per 100 people, while many poorer countries often associated with violence ranked much lower. Nigeria, for instance, had just one gun per 100 people.

"Firearms are very unevenly distributed around the world. The image we have of certain regions such as Africa or Latin America being awash with weapons -- these images are certainly misleading," Small Arms Survey director Keith Krause said.



"Weapons ownership may be correlated with rising levels of wealth, and that means we need to think about future demand in parts of the world where economic growth is giving people larger disposable income," he told a Geneva news conference.

Read More Here:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/08/28/us-world-firearms-idUSL2834893820070828

"Civilian holdings of weapons worldwide are much larger than we previously believed," Krause said, attributing the increase largely to better research and more data on weapon distribution networks.