Today, New Year’s Day 1 January
2019, the Washington Post published the homicide statistics for Washington, DC
and the surrounding Maryland and Virginia adjacent suburbs in an article entitled: "Homicides spike in District as shootings become more lethal, police say" . The stats once again clearly demonstrated that
any WaPo reader so naïve as to believes the myth that onerous gun laws yield
safer communities needed to look no further than the stats in this WaPo 1 Jan
19 article to be disabused of that fantasy. Using the data in that article and
the latest Census Bureau population numbers, I calculated the homicide rates of
DC and the adjacent Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Here are the results:
Maryland: 4.3
Homicides/100,000 citizens – 85 Homicides
(Montgomery Co Population = 1,058,810 – 19 Homicides;
PG Co = 912,756 – 66)
Virginia: 2.3
Homicides/100,000 citizens – 35 Homicides
(Arlington Population = 234,965 - 3 Homicides; Fairfax
= 1,148433 - 14; Alexandria = 160,035 - 4)
DC: 22.8
Homicides/100,000 citizens - 160 Homicides
(702,455 Population – 160 Homicides)
This means a DC resident, where
firearms are virtually impossible to own, is almost 10 times more likely to be
a homicide victim then one of us Gun Tottin Virginians who live in a state
where gun ownership is almost unrestricted.
Even a Marylander with very restrictive gun laws is over five times less
likely to be a homicide victim than a DC resident; much better than DC but a
Marylander is still almost twice as likely to be a homicide victim than one of us
Virginia Gun Totters!
This article clearly shows the breathtaking
disparity in homicide rates between the jurisdictions of DC or Maryland that
not only don’t have the death penalty but where criminals have little chance of
being confronted by a law abiding citizen who just might have a gun of their
own and Virginia where gun ownership is almost unrestricted and the only
question for murders is “do you prefer the needle or the chair?” That same WaPo
article noted that 40% of DC homicide offenders had a previous gun arrest
The statistics clearly demonstrate
that contrary to liberal rhetoric, it is an “inconvenient truth” that “guns
actually do make us safer.” Ask any Bostonian who was directed to “shelter in
place” during the Marathon Bomber manhunt how they feel about owning a gun
now! Could it be that homicidal maniacs
would much rather commit their crimes in jurisdictions like DC and MD without
the death penalty and are not so anxious to attack law-abiding VA citizens as
they might be "packing heat?"
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