Gun crimes increase 35 per cent in 12 monthsAlison Hardie Political Correspondent
…“Alberta taxpayers pay over $750 dollars per year to fund the RCMP as our provincial police service,” Shandro, the Alberta justice minister, wrote in September to Curtis Zablocki, the head of the Alberta RCMP. “We expect that those dollars not be wasted to pay for a confiscation ...
TheSt. Valentine’s Day Massacreon Feb. 14, 1929 in Chicago resulted in the deaths of seven gangsters associated with “Bugs” Moran (an enemy of Al Capone) and set off a series of debates and laws to ban machine guns. Originally enacted in 1934 in response to mafia crimes, the National...
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United States (e.g., Hoskins 2001; Zimring and Hawkins 1997), where some estimates imply that the total costs of gun violence–including medical, criminal justice, and other costs–could be well over $100 billion per year (calculated from Cohen et al. 2004; also see Cook and Ludwig 2000...
Together these policies have weakened law enforcement efforts to prevent gun crimes and prosecute people who commit gun offences. This also has limited researchers' ability to study the impact of gun violence prevention efforts. For the first time in twenty years, in 2021 congress allocated federal...
In 1968, Hawaii imposed a series of increasingly harsh measures, and its murder rate, then a low 2.4 per 100,000 per year, tripled to 7.2 by 1977. In opposition, states with liberal gun carry laws have much lower crime rates. In Florida the homicide rate dropped from 37 percent above ...
In actual fact .45 Auto Thompson Submachine Guns saw relatively little action prior to World War II and big city gangsters (mostly in the Chicago area) saddled Tommy Guns with a negative reputation in the 1920s. Their crimes, such as the murder of seven individuals on Valentine’s Day 1929...
There is at least some longitudinal evidence to suggest that fear of crime and victimization in one's neighborhood may increase the odds of acquiring a gun over a three-year study period (Hauser & Kleck, 2013). Following the weight of previous research, the symptom perspective suggests that ...
FOX 2 (WJBK) - In an eleven-year period in this country there were 1,363 persons killed in mass shootings, 947 wounded and an average of 20 mass shootings per year. About 44% of the killings were with handguns but the weapon of choice in 76% of the mass shootings ...