| Gun Crimes are actually a small percentage of the crime in most jurisdictions. Property crimes, narcotic based crimes, and crimes against person (violent w/o weapon) are all greater percentages all generally are a bigger piece of the pie chart than homicide or attempted homicide/agg assault with firearm. Alot of the homicide/agg assaults are committed with impact weapons (bats, sticks, pipes, hammers etc) or stabbing cutting instruments (knives, box cutters, and one I worked a meat fork)
The jurisdiction I work in it's a good bet that any residence you enter will have a deer rifle or at least a shotgun. Yet our incidents of firearm violence account for about 1.5% of the total stat's for the last year, and two incidents were accidental shootings during hunting season, 1 self inflicted.
Our incidents of home invasion burglary/robbery are .5 % the 1 incident last year was a dope house that got taken down by arival cook/dealer. Now compare that to my former agency in a large urban area (I work in the burbs on the very edge now) where firearm ownership was not nearly as prevelent and you worked home invasion's every freakin night. Because the scumbags were pretty sure the vic's weren't armed.
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Sgt. Rafael Peralta ,United States Marine Corps
Company A, 1st Bn, 3rd Marine Regt, 3rd Marine Divison
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