{"id":62214,"date":"2016-08-16T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=62214"},"modified":"2016-08-16T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T03:29:23","slug":"responsible-gun-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/responsible-gun-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_62215\" style=\"width: 738px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WhoIsResponsibleForGunCrime.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"responsible-gun-crime\" title=\"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62215\" title=\"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WhoIsResponsibleForGunCrime.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: WashPo\" width=\"728\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WhoIsResponsibleForGunCrime.jpg 728w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WhoIsResponsibleForGunCrime-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WhoIsResponsibleForGunCrime-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: WashPo<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We say it all the time. Why? Because it\u2019s true. Criminals \u2014 not law-abiding gun owners \u2014 are responsible for the vast majority of gun-related violence!<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmedicine.info\/index.php\/socialmedicine\/article\/view\/852\/1649\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"responsible-gun-crime\" title=\"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?\">analysis<\/a> from the University of Pittsburgh backs up our assertion. Researchers there, in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, examined 762 cases in which a gun was recovered by police in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The main conclusion? \u201cMost perpetrators (79%) were carrying a gun that did not belong to them,\u201d the study states. In other words, those bad guys were criminals with stolen firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the question is how did these guns end up in the hands of criminals? According to the research, over 30 percent were stolen and, presumably, another large percentage were obtained with the help of a straw purchase, an individual with no criminal history who purchases a firearm for a criminal acquaintance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62216\" style=\"width: 697px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-16-at-3.40.24-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"responsible-gun-crime\" title=\"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62216\" title=\"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-16-at-3.40.24-PM.png\" alt=\"A look at a \" width=\"687\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-16-at-3.40.24-PM.png 687w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-16-at-3.40.24-PM-150x82.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-16-at-3.40.24-PM-400x218.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: University of Pittsburgh<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The percentage of crime guns obtained through a straw purchaser is tougher to nail down for obvious reasons. Unless caught red-handed, the straw purchaser isn\u2019t going to disclose to police that (a) they sold the firearm to a criminal or (b) that it was \u201cstolen\u201d or \u201clost\u201d for fear that it may implicate them in the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, there\u2019s little else that can be done legislatively to keep criminals from stealing guns or using straw purchasers to obtain them. Existing federal laws already prohibit both. Possession of a stolen firearm is punishable up to 10 years in prison as is selling or giving a firearm to any prohibited person, e.g. criminal, minor, mental defective, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/usao-ut\/legacy\/2013\/06\/03\/guncard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"responsible-gun-crime\" title=\"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?\">according to the Department of Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, various gun-control groups believe that passing laws that require gun owners to report to police lost or stolen firearms within a certain period of time would help crack down on straw purchasing. But again, an obvious loophole exists. Straw purchasers can easily claim that they had no knowledge that the gun was even \u201cmissing.\u201d How does one report a lost or stolen gun that they don\u2019t know is lost or stolen?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62217\" style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-16-at-3.40.08-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"responsible-gun-crime\" title=\"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62217\" title=\"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-16-at-3.40.08-PM.png\" alt=\"(Photo: University of Pittsburgh)\" width=\"351\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-16-at-3.40.08-PM.png 351w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-16-at-3.40.08-PM-143x150.png 143w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-16-at-3.40.08-PM-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: University of Pittsburgh<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The burden would be on the state to prove that (a) they should\u2019ve known it was missing and (b) that they then should\u2019ve called the police. That\u2019s not an easy task, as it concerns how one keeps their private property. Some folks inventory their firearms weekly, others yearly, and others not at all. And without enacting extraconstitutional gun laws, the government can\u2019t get into the business of telling folks how they ought to inventory their firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the mandate to report lost or stolen guns would really only impact the law-abiding, who are already the folks that report a gun lost or stolen, especially when it\u2019s knowingly lost or stolen. This brings us back to square one, which is those inclined to break the law will break the law, regardless of the laws on the books. Or, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/07\/27\/new-evidence-confirms-what-gun-rights-advocates-have-been-saying-for-a-long-time-about-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"responsible-gun-crime\" title=\"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?\">The Washington Post noted<\/a>, when it examined the study:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The top-line finding of the study \u2014 that the overwhelming majority of gun crimes aren&#8217;t committed by lawful gun owners \u2014 reinforces a common refrain among gun rights advocacy groups,&#8221; stated WashPo. &#8220;They argue that since criminals don&#8217;t follow laws, new regulations on gun ownership would only serve to burden lawful owners while doing little to combat crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amen! We\u2019ve done pretty much all we can policy-wise \u2014 and then some \u2014 to tackle gun-relative violence. The only way to really address the issue is to (a) take existing criminals off the street and (b) create a society that creates fewer criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main conclusion? \u201cMost perpetrators (79%) were carrying a gun that did not belong to them,\u201d the study states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":62215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,25,216,240],"tags":[132,469,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-gun-control","14":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The main conclusion? \u201cMost perpetrators (79%) were carrying a gun that did not belong to them,\u201d the study states.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/responsible-gun-crime\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who Is Responsible for Gun Crime?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The main conclusion? \u201cMost perpetrators (79%) were carrying a gun that did not belong to them,\u201d the study states.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/responsible-gun-crime\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-08-16T19:54:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-20T03:29:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/WhoIsResponsibleForGunCrime.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"481\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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