{"id":124521,"date":"2020-02-13T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=124521"},"modified":"2020-02-13T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:14:49","slug":"gun-control-is-a-solution-to-non-existent-problem-says-utah-gun-rights-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-control-is-a-solution-to-non-existent-problem-says-utah-gun-rights-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control Is A Solution to Non-Existent Problem Says Utah Gun-Rights Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"\nWatch the latest video at foxnews.com<\/a>\n\n\n\n

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A Utah gun-rights advocate said that recent efforts to enact gun control in the Beehive State is a solution to a problem that doesn\u2019t exist. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In Utah, we have one of the highest rates of firearm ownership, very, very little restrictions on firearms, we\u2019re a very permissive state,” Utah Shooting Sports Council Chairman Clark Aposhian told \u201cFox & Friends First<\/a>\u201d Monday. “Yet we have one of the lowest homicide and violent crime rates, even with a firearm, in the country, so what we\u2019re asking for is to fix a problem that isn\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aposhian was voicing his opposition to a variety of bills, including red flag legislation, universal background check legislation, gun storage legislation, among others. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sportsman was asked by the \u201cFox & Friends First\u201d anchors whether those bills would keep prohibited persons, like felons, from accessing firearms.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConvicted felons can\u2019t use weapons, we\u2019ve already got existing laws,\u201d Aposhian explained.  \u201cFelons can\u2019t have firearms, people that make threats with firearms can\u2019t own firearms and you can have them arrested [in Utah], so they\u2019re talking about people that haven\u2019t committed a crime and, you know, haven\u2019t threatened anyone \u2026 yet they\u2019re so apparently dangerous that they have to remove their rights to own a firearm without ever seeing a judge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When one digs into the data it becomes increasingly evident that most of the country is relatively murder free.\u00a0 The vast majority of homicides, as it turns out, happen in only a handful of counties, oftentimes concentrated in very small urban areas. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Crime Prevention Research Center <\/a>did the math.\u00a0 What it found in 2014 was 5 percent of counties nationwide (containing 47 percent of the population) account for 68 percent of murders!\u00a0 Another interesting finding, 54 percent of counties (with 11 percent of the population) have zero murders! \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the chart below for a more complete breakdown:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see, 68 percent of all homicides in 2014 happened in only 5 percent of counties nationwide. Gun-related violence is not a nationwide problem. It’s a problem for a small percentage of counties with high-crime neighborhoods. (Photo: CPRC)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Back to Utah, it is as Aposhian says a state with very permissive gun laws and a relatively low homicide rate<\/a>, roughly 2.2 homicides per 100,000 people or roughly 68 total homicides per year.\u00a0 That is roughly half the national average (5.3 per 100,000), and much lower than troubled cities<\/a> like St. Louis (60.9 homicides per 100,000) or Baltimore (51 homicides per 100,000) or Detroit (38.9 homicides per 100,000). \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And per the info discussed above, most of Utah\u2019s violent crime happens in a few localized areas.\u00a0 Let’s assume for the sake of argument that gun control is effective, why then would lawmakers take an ax to a fundamental right, the 2A, when it makes much more sense to use a scalpel? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policies specifically targeting those troubled areas where the vast majority of homicides occur makes the most sense. But anti-gun lawmakers aren’t limiting their gun-grabbing agenda to certain locales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we know why that is, of course. Because (a) gun control doesn’t work. Cities with high-crime rates typically have very restrictive gun laws that are wholly ineffective at curbing violence. And (b) because, fundamentally, gun control isn’t about reducing carnage or saving lives — it’s about disarming law-abiding citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents of Utah hopefully understand this game that’s being played on them right now. None of those bills being proposed will do anything but set the table for incremental infringement on one’s right to keep and bear arms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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