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发帖数: 29846 | 1 奥巴马在推销枪支管制时说芝加哥的凶杀潮是普遍现象，事实是2012年芝加哥凶杀率增
加16%，尽管那里有严格的枪支管制，而全美凶杀率下降2%
MILLER: Obama’s real gun-control aim
Chicago shows that more gun laws lead to more crime
Chicago is a dangerous town, but gun control hasn't made it better. The city
forbids the law-abiding from having guns, leaving the bad guys to rule the
streets. The result is one of the highest murder rates in the country.
President Obama's plan isn't to reverse from a failed course, but to apply
federal gun registration and confiscation of certain weapons nationwide.
Addressing students at Hyde Park Academy last week, Mr. Obama recalled the
recent murder of Hadiya Pendleton, a teenager. "It's not unique to Chicago,"
he said. "It's not unique to this country. Too many of our children are
being taken away from us."
The rising homicide rate actually is unique to the president's hometown. The
506 murders last year reflected a 16 percent increase over the previous
year. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, this happened while
the rest of the country saw a 2 percent decrease in homicides; the national
rate is at its lowest point since 1963.
Mr. Obama reiterated his legislative priorities: bans on the so-called
assault weapon and high-capacity magazine, and background checks for every
private gun exchange. However, it's not as if the president really believes
these bills would do anything to reduce crime or prevent mass shootings.
The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action acquired a
research document prepared last month by the Justice Department's research
arm, the National Institute of Justice. The report, titled "Summary of
Select Firearm Violence Prevention Strategies," explains that a "complete
elimination of assault weapons would not have a large impact on gun
homicides." It further noted banning guns with certain scary-looking
features "could be effective" if the government outlawed all existing
firearms, and bought them all.
Similarly, the Justice report asserts that the only way to achieve the "goal
to reduce the lethality of guns" with a ban on magazines over 10 rounds
would be by a "massive reduction in supply." It recommends not "
grandfathering" the hundreds of millions of existing magazines, but
implementing an "extensive buyback" program. Even then, it would "take
decades to realize."
In a speech on Thursday, Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association
said the president's true agenda with his "universal background check"
proposal was "the national registration of every single gun owner in the
country." The Justice Department memo recommends the creation of a national
gun registry to make background checks for private gun sales useful for the
government.
The report says registering every gun purchase in the country would "
increase owner responsibility," enable "monitoring" of multiple gun
purchases in a short period of time and "improve law enforcement's ability
to retrieve guns from owners" prohibited from possessing firearms. That's
code for confiscation.
The National Institute of Justice did not respond to questions about who in
the administration asked for the research and whether it was given to the
White House.
The document puts the administration's plans into context. Mr. Obama and his
allies want to know who owns every single gun in this country, and if they
think a gun is scary looking, they will take it away.
Emily Miller is a senior editor for the Opinion pages at The Washington
Times. | r******g
发帖数: 4002 | 2 老黑还没有完全进化为人类，老黑越多的地方，凶杀案越多，即使芝加哥是全美控枪最
严的城市。美国人选了一个来自芝加哥的恶棍作为总统，一切概括承受吧。 | o**********s
发帖数: 2972 | 3 大陆人还要翻墙出来上mitbbs,也算是一切概括承受吧? |
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