http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_re_us/big_city_homicides;_ylt=AnGNi7eeR8rM17y4EEAzVx5G2ocA
While I am happy for the citizens of those two cities, I am sure the decline has less to do with those cities recent anti-guns laws and more to do witht he fact that the overall homicide rate for the entire country has been declining for many years prior to those gun laws being enacted. The anti's are probably having a field day with this article, until one considers that this is not a report about gun homicides, it is all homicides, including knives, cars, beatings, chains, screwdrivers, etc.
In Baltimore, where owning a handgun is next to impossible, the homicide rate went up. How will the anti's explain this? They will say that guns are being smuggled into the city. Umm, duh ! But it's not the law abiding citizens doing this or killing those people with guns, but if law abiding zitizens were allowed to own guns, perhaps a good number of these homicides could have been prevented. Over and over this article points to gangs and organized crime as factors for the homicide rates. These groups will get guns no matter how banned they are.
Disarming law abiding citizens only creates victims.
