Does Gun Control Increase Crime Rates?

[Pengwuino]

Regarding Protection
There are rural areas here in America where the police/sheriffs/rangers have a very hard time getting anywhere to protect anyone. If you live in one of these ares and you believe there are bandits that may harm you approaching your residence you can call the police but they may not get there for quite some time. It's much easier for these people to own a gun and at the least have it to protect their person if not try to protect their valuables as well.
Oddly though in an urban area there are more police and a stronger police presence so you would think there is less need for a gun but there are probably more guns and more gun related deaths because there are more criminals. Gangs in particular are a mostly urban phenomena and the majority of these gang members carry guns. They are already criminals so they don't care if they get their guns legally or not.

Response time in Fresno, CA is about 20min-1h. The city that borders us, Clovis, however, has a response time of 5 min! The cops have nothing to do all day so they are responding to your call like they are receiving a tip for it or something.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Response time in Fresno, CA is about 20min-1h. The city that borders us, Clovis, however, has a response time of 5 min! The cops have nothing to do all day so they are responding to your call like they are receiving a tip for it or something.

On another forum I spoke with someone in Arizona I think it was who had trouble with bandits trying to steal their gasoline which they kept on hand since there wasn't a gas pump for quite a ways.
Do they have similar troubles out in Fresno?

 

[Pengwuino]

Yah people steal gasoline here (no matter what the prices are oddly enough). They siphon from the car though, no one I know actually keeps gasoline on hand separate from the car however.

 

[Townsend]

Do they have similar troubles out in Fresno?

Fresno is a large city not at all a rural but it is surrounded by rural area. In fact the Fresno metropolitan area has a much larger population then the entire state of South Dakota. A fact which I happen to like a lot.

 

[Pengwuino]

Whats South Dakota's population? Fresno's met. area should be around 1 million population.

 

[Townsend]

Whats South Dakota's population? Fresno's met. area should be around 1 million population.

In 2004 it was about 770,883 with about an 11% growth rate.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2004 Population Estimates

And yeah, Fresno's met area is a tad more than 10^6.

 

[Pengwuino]

Sweet...

 

[Skyhunter]

I've lived up in Yosemite and the foothills around there, there is a lot of hunting. Yet when I'm out camping and there is somebody with a gun to "protect them against bears" I usually go as far away from there as possible. Half the time it is a pistol that would take a lot of skill to actually kill a bear. Besides in the dark how fast will they shoot at something they think might be a bear.

I hear you. I wouldn't want to be in the path of a wounded bear on a rampage either.

 

[Pengwuino]

Besides in the dark how fast will they shoot at something they think might be a bear.

Especially when half the people have more beer then bullets with them.

 

[outsider]

Guns in America will always exist... people want drugs, alcohol, guns and freedom of speech...

drugs and alcohol so they are free to say something rediculously offensive... and a gun to back themselves up afterward...

"you got a problem?.. I got a problem solver... and I call it revolver"

 

[Evo]

You just responded to a thread that's been dead for almost a year.