There is a great deal of fear that the Federal Government under Obama and Holder will attempt to restrict the benefits of the Second Amendment by trying to control the sale and ownership of guns. The Feds have been battling to control the drug trade for many years and have spent billions of dollars in trying to do so. And as we all know, they have had little if any impact on reducing the insatiable demand that the American people have for illegal drugs. The highest consumption of illegal drugs also center around poor inner cities; they are also the areas that have the highest unemployment and lowest income.
Below, I list the nine most dangerous cities in the United States (in 2011.) The * indicates cities that do not allow residents to carry concealed weapons and are therefore unable to protect themselves and their families. That being the case, one might wonder how is it possible for so many gun-related murders to occur in cities that prohibit residents from being able to carry and protect themselves from criminals. The Federal Government needs to reflect back on the words once spoken by Clint Eastwood when he said that “A man has got to know his limitations.” In other words, the Government has also got to know its limitations and realize that the bad guys carry guns and rob, rape, and murder honest citizens who cannot protect themselves from criminals.
There is also a direct correlation with murder and unemployment since only Little Rock, AK was the only city below the current unemployment rate of 8.2%, coming in with 7.2%. As clearly indicated, four states are Blue, two are Purple and three are Red. Poverty is without a doubt a significant driving force that dramatically increases the crime rate of cities such as Flint, Michigan and Detroit.
Here, we have each city’s name, followed by the total population, followed by the number of crimes per 1,000 residents, followed by the number of murders for the year, then the residential median income, the unemployment rate, and finally, their political following (be it Blue, Purple, or Red State.)
Flint Michigan * 23.4 102,357 52 $22,672.00 18.9% Blue……..
Detroit Michigan * 21.4 713,239 344 $25,787.00 19.9% Blue……..
St. Louis MO 18.6 320,454 113 $32,688.00 11.7% Purple
Oakland CA * 16.8 395,317 14 $49,190.00 15,6% Blue ………
Memphis Tenn 15.8 652,725 117 $37,045.00 11.1% Red ………
Little Rock AK 14.9 194,988 37 $44,415.00 7.2% Purple
Birmingham AL * 14.8 213,258 54 $30,212.00 10.9% Red……..
Atlanta GA 14.3 425,533 88 $32,087.00 12.1% ……… Red
Stockton, CA * 1 4.1 295,606 58 $45,606.00 20.2% Blue
Colorado allows their residents to carry; they even have a law that mandates that if a public building elects to prohibit residents from entering their public buildings with a weapon, they are then required to provide a guard along with a metal detector to protect those who enter unarmed. I imagine that Century 16 movie theaters (where the unfortunate Aurora shooting incident occurred) might find themselves dealing with a great number of lawsuits since there was no guard, nor was there a metal detector; however, there was a sign that prohibited weapons from being brought into the theater.
A few questions need to be asked. What if there was no such restriction? Might the shooter not have been as brazen, thinking that there very well might be many armed citizens in the theater? Might that have been a sufficient deterrent? We will never know the answer to these questions; however, what we do know is that in states that allow their residents to carry concealed weapons, the overall crime rate tends to be significantly lower than states that prohibit their citizens from carrying concealed weapons.
Guns do not kill people; people kill people.
The irony is that all of these lawmakers who want to take away our gun rights have 24/7 armed protection; once again, it comes down to “do as I say, not as I do.”
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When Texas passed the Concealed Handgun License (CHL) law, the liberals screamed that blood would flow in the streets, that Texans would “cowboy up” and start shooting everything and everybody in sight. The liberals’ predictions never occurred, street crime diminished and people felt safer.
Last year, another Texas state law made it legal for CHL holders to drive to work with their weapon and keep it locked in their car/truck on company property. The liberals screamed about that, too, claiming that an angry employee could just run out to his car and come back shooting. That never happened, either.
Liberals simply do not live on the same planet the rest of us live on. For some reason, they are incapable of critical thought. IMHO, it’s because liberals’ social/psychological development has been arrested at some point around puberty and they can only think in emotional, not adult, terms.
Liberals don’t know what’s good for them. Therefore they don’t know what’s good for anyone else. I think their ‘social/psychological development has been arrested’ because most of them took illegal drugs in their teens. From what I’ve seen from these teens who took these drugs, as adults they act like they are children trapped in adult bodies. I’ve seen this in my own family. It’s rather sad and scarey at the same time. Now, that they rule us, look at the mess we’re in. obozo does not act like an adult. You know he doesn’t take the blame for his own actions? The liberals want to force gun control down our throats. They believe the lie that guns kill people. Well, it’s true, “people kill people!” But, they don’t see this. They don’t live in reality. Like you say they seem to live on a ‘different planet than the rest of us live on.’ Even though the evidence is staring them in the face they won’t admit it. Just like a spoiled child they demand their way and when they don’t get it they have a temper tantrum. The Second Amendment is God-given and should never be trampled upon. Everyone has the right to defend themselves. See website: http://www.haasstrep68.com page 4 for the history of treason.
Guns in control of a out of control federal goverment ,be it here or elsewhere kill more than any private citizen!Ever heard of the KGB,Gestapo ,Brown Shirts, or Iran or Pakistan Famous Secert Police?Syria ,Egypt.various South American and Africian Presidents for life,all of which are members of the UN! If anyone forgot where the kings troops were heading to on the Concord Bridge 19, April 1776 to seize the powder and ball at Williamsburg ,Mass.! The frist thing any wantbe dictator must do is disarm the general population. Thank God our Founders understood tryants and there designs!He who is unarmed is soon a victim or slave to the armed! How many citizens have died for disagreeing with the current powers or exposing the truth behind the lies?If it were’nt for the 2nd amendent we would soon lose our1st.Then we become silent slaves,exactly the kind the old democratics loved!Now they inslave the black population by handouts and destruction of the will to achieve and the family unit ! It’s like a gaint study in the Stockholm symptrdrom{sp}Why is it most of the cities that have large black populations also have ,a Democratic control and the strictist gun contol laws?Detroit, Boston New, York,Pitt and philly, Chi town Newark , Washington DC ?Prehaps they still fear the slaves ?