Word: preventing
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...Buckley, Sheriff of Middlesex County and founder of People vs. Handguns, notes that 54 per cent of all murders are committed with handguns, 33 per cent of all robberies, and 25 per cent of all aggravated assaults. "The key to the issue," Buckley argues, "is that banning handguns will prevent crime before it occurs. If we want to make progress in the area of crime we've got to have prevention...
...sense and the crudest tools and materials, he argues. Even in prisons guns are obtained through smuggling and primitive manufacture. Anop adds that marijuana is illegal in the U.S. but that this hasn't stopped even high school kids from smoking it. And the border patrol is unable to prevent the easy flow of machine guns and mortars, let alone handguns, across the Canadian and Mexican borders...
...chief effect of a handgun ban will be to prevent people from protecting themselves, Anop argues, drawing attention to FBI crime reports which show for example, that after police trained some 6000 Orlando, Florida women in firearms the incidence of rape was cut in half. Similar events occured in Phoenix and Atlanta, according...
...statistics on how many crimes are prevented in this manner, but there are certainly quite a few." Cassidy says. Private handgun ownership can prevent crime when attackers are scared away or when the crime never occurs because the potential criminal fears his victim will be armed, he argues. Cassidy feels that without this deterrent effect crime rates might rise rather than fall after a handgun...
Wilson argues that more certain and slightly more severe prison sentences will prevent crime mainly because repeaters will be in prison rather than committing crimes, but also because the sentences will have a deterrent effect on future crimes. GOAL members believe this would be the fairest and most effective way to protect lives and property...