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A recent op-ed by economist and gun activist John Lott for the Daily Caller suggested the Biden-Harris Administration has enabled crime spikes through their open border policies, and the reality of its impact could be worse than reported. Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) discussed the article in a recent appearance on Fox News’s Faulkner Focus, viciously condemning the White House, saying, “They let Americans die, and their blood is on their hands.”
Lott’s article noted that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data from July 2024 reveals that 7.5 million illegal aliens have been released into the United States in the past four decades, including over 600,000 with criminal records as revealed in October.
“ICE has been processing criminals as they enter the country, but without identifying them as criminals. So, under the Biden administration, they have simply been released into the country. Now, they are walking freely in the United States, and no one knows where they are. As bad as these numbers are, the reality may be even worse,” Lott’s piece said ominously. . . .
In den USA tobt – wie auch in Europa – seit vielen Jahren ein Streit zwischen Befürwortern einer liberalen Waffengesetzgebung und den Vertretern einer rigorosen Beschränkung des privaten Waffenbesitzes.
Einer der prominentesten Vertreter der ersten Gruppe ist der Ökonom und Waffenrechtsaktivist John Lott. In seinen Büchern „More Guns, Less Crime“ und „The Bias Against Guns“ argumentiert er für einen möglichst freien Zugang der Bürger zu effektiven Selbstverteidigungsmitteln. Lott und andere sachverständige liberale Autoren betonen den abschreckenden Effekt, den der bewaffnete Bürger auf kriminelle Gewalttäter ausübt.
Demnach würde von der Möglichkeit, dass potenzielle Straftäter sich unverhofft einem bewaffneten Opfer gegenüberzusehen, eine gewaltpräventive Wirkung ausgehen.
Lott hat herausgefunden, dass das zu einer Verlagerung von Gewaltkriminalität aus Bundesstaaten mit liberaler Waffengesetzgebung in solche mit restriktiven Regeln führt – was seine These unterstützt, dass Verbrecher nicht auf Schießereien, sondern auf wehrlose Opfer aus sind.
Gegner eines freien Zugangs zu Feuerwaffen behaupten dagegen, dass jede Reduktion des Privatwaffenbestandes automatisch zu einem Rückgang der Schusswaffenkriminalität führen muss, wobei sie grundsätzlich nicht zwischen legal oder illegal erworbenen Schusswaffen unterscheiden. Dass Kriminelle nicht dazu neigen, ihre Tatmittel auf amtsbekannten Wegen – beim gewerblichen Waffenfachhandel – zu erwerben, sondern den (naturgemäß unregulierten) Schwarzmarkt vorziehen, bleibt unberücksichtigt.
Tatsache ist, dass in den USA Schusswaffen in der Kriminalitätsstatistik eine größere Rolle spielen als in Europa. Daraus den Schluss zu ziehen, dass strikte Waffengesetze zu mehr Sicherheit führen würden, greift jedoch zu kurz. Für die Gewaltkriminalität sind nämlich sozioökonomische Faktoren wie Arbeitslosigkeit, Drogenabhängigkeit oder Alkoholismus von wesentlich größerer Bedeutung als der freie Zugang zu Feuerwaffen.
Zu denken gibt in diesem Zusammenhang das Beispiel Großbritanniens, wo 1987, nach einem Schulmassaker im schottischen Dunblane, der private Schusswaffenbesitz beinahe ausnahmslos kriminalisiert wurde, was sich auf die Zahl der Gewaltdelikte indes nicht in gewünschter Weise auswirkte.
In den USA fallen die Waffengesetze nicht in die Bundeszuständigkeit, sondern sind Sache der Bundesstaten, wobei die Regeln stark voneinander abweichen. Vergleichende Studien zur Frage des Zusammenhangs zwischen der legalen Verfügbarkeit von Feuerwaffen und der Zahl der Schusswaffendelikte zeigen keine klare Korrelation. . . .
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In the USA – as in Europe – a dispute has been raging for many years between supporters of liberal gun laws and those who advocate strict restrictions on private gun ownership.
One of the most prominent representatives of the first group is the economist and gun rights activist John Lott. In his books “More Guns, Less Crime” and “The Bias Against Guns” he argues for citizens to have as much free access as possible to effective means of self-defense. Lott and other expert liberal authors emphasize the deterrent effect that armed citizens have on violent criminals.
Accordingly, the possibility that potential criminals unexpectedly come face to face with an armed victim would have a violence-preventing effect.
Lott has found that this leads to a shift in violent crime from states with liberal gun laws to those with restrictive rules – which supports his thesis that criminals are not after shootings, but defenseless victims.
Opponents of free access to firearms, on the other hand, claim that any reduction in private gun ownership must automatically lead to a reduction in gun crime, although they do not fundamentally differentiate between legally and illegally acquired firearms. The fact that criminals do not tend to acquire their means of crime through officially known channels – from commercial gun dealers – but prefer the (naturally unregulated) black market is not taken into account.
The fact is that firearms play a larger role in crime statistics in the USA than in Europe. However, it is too simplistic to conclude from this that strict gun laws would lead to greater security. Socioeconomic factors such as unemployment, drug addiction or alcoholism are of much greater importance for violent crime than free access to firearms.
In this context, the example of Great Britain is worth considering. In 1987, after a school massacre in Dunblane, Scotland, private ownership of firearms was criminalized almost without exception, although this did not have the desired effect on the number of violent crimes.
In the USA, gun laws are not a federal matter, but are a matter for the states, with the rules varying considerably. Comparative studies on the question of the connection between the legal availability of firearms and the number of firearm crimes show no clear correlation.
Americans found out shortly before the elections that, as John Lott reported at RealClearInvestigations, the long-running Democratic claim that crime in America had dropped precipitously with Joe Biden (nominally) in charge was a falsehood. The FBI’s 2022 data indicating a 2.1% drop in violent crime was quietly revised to show a rise of 4.5%. “The updated data for 2022 report that there were 80,029 more violent crimes than in 2021. There were an additional 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies, and 37,091 aggravated assaults.” . . .
David P. Deavel, “Daniel Penny Is On Trial, But So Are Blue States,” AMAC, December 8, 2024.
From May 2007 to January 2024, 1,007 killings across nearly 16 years is an average of about 63 killings per year. To put that figure in its proper context, you have to compare it to the number of Americans who lawfully carry firearms. According to data from the University of Washington, “in 2019 approximately 16 million adult handgun owners had carried a loaded handgun on their person in the past month.” According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, the number has risen to 22 million as of 2022. . . .
The cost of crime from 662,000 criminal illegal migrants sought for deportation has been pegged at three times the much-hyped price of President-elect Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” plan.
In an analysis from the Crime Prevention Research Center, the costs of crime from the top targets of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations was set at $166.5 billion. That number is based on the cost to victims, a price list developed by the National Institute of Justice. . . .
The $166.5 billion figure, derived from data from Dr. John R. Lott and RealClear Investigations, is likely a lowball estimate. It considers only a fraction of the crimes committed by 662,566 non-detained illegal immigrants with criminal histories—criminals released into the U.S. on the flimsy hope they’ll show up for hearings. What about the untold crimes by the estimated two million “gotaways” who entered the U.S. since 2021, escaping even rudimentary scrutiny? . . .
Mark Penn is “one very honest guy,” declared economist and gun rights advocate John R. Lott, Jr. . . .
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) faces mounting scrutiny after revelations of extensive and unexplained revisions to its crime statistics. In October, Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center exposed that the FBI had stealth-edited its 2022 violent crime report, turning an initial 2.1% decrease into a 4.5% increase—an adjustment that added 1,699 murders.
“How do you miss 1,699 murders?” Lott asked, calling the revisions both alarming and indicative of deeper issues in the agency’s handling of public data. . . .
This isn’t the first time the FBI has faced allegations of mishandling data. Lott previously criticized the agency for omitting numerous cases of defensive gun use from its reports. “The FBI dataset is missing so many defensive gun uses that it’s hard to believe it isn’t intentional,” he said. “And they refuse to correct blatant mistakes.” . . .
Sean Gibbons, “The FBI’s Missing Murders,” The Gun Experiment, December 4, 2024.
Trošak kriminalnih aktivnosti koje su počinili ilegalni migranti, koji se nalaze na listi za deportaciju, procenjuje se na 166,5 milijardi dolara, što je tri puta više od ukupnog troška planirane masovne deportacije, koju je predložio novoizabrani predsednik Donald Tramp
Taj iznos temelji se na analizi koju je uradio Centar za prevenciju kriminala (Crime Prevention Research Center), a koji je uključivao samo troškove vezane za zločine koji su počinili 662.000 ilegalnih migranata koje su američke imigracione službe (ICE) htele da deportuju, piše portal “Vašington egzaminer”
Prema analizi koju je uradio Centar, ubistva čine gotovo 153,8 milijardi dolara od ukupnog iznosa, dok seksualni napadi i prekršaji čine dodatnih šest milijardi dolara, a seksualni zločini i prekršaji još 5,2 milijarde dolara. . . .
Translation from Bosnian.
The cost of criminal activity committed by illegal immigrants on the deportation list is estimated at $166.5 billion, three times the total cost of the planned mass deportations proposed by President-elect Donald Trump
That figure is based on an analysis by the Crime Prevention Research Center that included only the costs related to crimes committed by the 662,000 illegal immigrants that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wanted to deport, the Washington Examiner reports.
According to the analysis by the Center, homicides account for nearly $153.8 billion of the total, while sexual assaults and misdemeanors account for an additional $6 billion, and sexual crimes and misdemeanors account for another $5.2 billion.
