Mayor Bloomberg Lying and Real Facts About Homicide Rate

by Jack Lee

In a news interview yesterday Mayor Bloomberg of New York said the people are prepared to move forward on gun control laws, whether the NRA likes it or not. He underscored this resolve by saying, “The United States has a murder rate on a scale that you simply cannot compare with other nations.” Actually you can Mr. Mayor, want to see how it plays out?

The Dept. of Justice tracks and reports murder rates. Right now, despite New York, and Washington D.C. where homicides are extremely high, our nation still has a relatively low murder rate.

USA has about 4 murders for every 100,000 citizens. We’re among the lowest in homicides on the north and south American continent.

Look almost anywhere on the African continent and the murder ranges between 400 and 900% higher than here. Is anybody screaming about that? All I hear is the echo coming from a vacant news room because they are all out covering fictionalized assault weapons.

Closer to home Trinidad and Tobago have a murder rate 8.5 times higher than the US! Wow, don’t visit those places. Honduras is 22.7X that of the USA and for sure stay away from there!

Do you see anybody screaming about an assault weapons ban in any of these countries? NO – they already have one.

Mexico’s gun laws are among the toughest in the world. Mexico is over 400% higher and likely more, because many murders are never reported. Panama has a murder rate 5 times the US, tougher gun laws too.

The countries with the top 10 highest murder rates also have the toughest gun control laws to be found anywhere. They are in ranking, El Salvador, Iraq, Jamaica, Honduras, Columbia, Venezuela, Guatemala and South Africa.

If the USA had not allowed over 6 million illegals into the country and we eliminated our five worst cities for homicide, like New York, we would look a lot like Canada. Anybody screaming about New York or Washington D.C. getting their act together to prevent murders or removing illegals? The silence here is deafening, I wonder where’s the outrage? Why aren’t the liberals marching for deporting illegals?

Wash. D.C., Ca and NY also have the toughest gun control laws too. IS ANYONE FREAKING PAYING ATTENTION TO THE FACTS? Do I have to reach out from this screen and grab you by your liberal neck to get your attention?

Bluntly speaking (as always) Mayor Bloomberg is just another anti-gun liberal hypocrite and his leftist propaganda won’t fly here. I’m calling him on it and all the hypocrisy coming from the left now trying to pass feel good gun control laws!

If guns in the home meant a violent society, Switzerland would be the worst. It’s not and far from it.

List of famous shootings in USA over the past 30 years:

1984, James Huberty, 42, opened fire in a McDonalds, weapons used two hand guns and semi-auto rifle. 22 killed. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

1991, Robert Hawkins, 19, opened fire in a shopping mall in Nebraska, weapon was an assault rifle that had been stolen. he killed 6.

1998, Kiplan Kinkle, shot his parents and two classmates after he was expelled. He was rushed by 5 males students and subdued. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

2004, Ohio, Nathan Gale, 25, killed 5 at night club. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

2006, Jennifer San Marco, 44, postal worker, killed 8. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

2007, Souliman Talovic, 18, went on a rampage in a Utah mall, 6 killed. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

2007, West Virginia, Seung Cho, 23, opened fire on crowded classroom, killed 33. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

2008, Kentucky, Joseph Wesbecker, 47, started shooting in his work place. Killed 9. 4 weapons used, including semi-auto AK-47 assault [style] rifle.

2008, Missouri, Charles Horton, 52, shot and killed 8 at a council meeting before being killed by police. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

2009, Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan, 39, started shooting a military ceremony, murdered 13 before being shot. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

2011, Scott Dekraai, 43, opened fire in a beauty salon, killing 8. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

2011, Jared Laughner, 22, started shooting at a political event. Killed 6. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

2012, One Goh, student, killed 7 wounded 3. NO ASSAULT WEAPON USED.

2012, James Holmes, 22, used 3 weapons in a crowded movie theater, two pistols and semi-auto rifle of the type looked like an assault weapon, but technically was not (it jammed after a few shots) and killed 15.

There are 26 more cases, but only two other events that I could find included a semi-auto assault [style] weapon that would still be legal, with a limited 10 shot clip. And in the overwhelming majority of cases the people were suffering from chronic mental illness. About 25% of the cases were work place related where something happened that triggered their rage and temporary insanity.

Mental health is the problem and we need better tools to deal with dangerous individuals.

We would be infinitely better served if we examined the poor state of assistance for the mentally ill, rather than wringing our hands over the fictional belief that assault weapons are the problem. Statistically speaking their simply NOT. This is an absolutely provable false perception.