Summary: Every once in awhile the left actually tells the truth. A Harvard University study was conducted to consider gun ownership compared to murder rates in industrialized nations. The results will not shock most in the audience, but the source material will. Don’t look for this report on CNN. We have a new feature for Thursday’s shows; SOTG U Homeroom. Each week we will address a subject that requires a bit of thought and inspires learning. This new feature is sponsored by CapArms, a premium ammunition manufacturer. This week we ponder the question about humans stand still for the slaughter. SOURCES: Please thank SWAT Fuel for their support: Facebook - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SWATfuel">www.facebook.com/SWATfuel </a> Website - <a href="http://swatfuel.com/contact-us.aspx">swatfuel.com/contact-us</a> From <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Articles/Harvard-University-Study-Reveals-Astonishing-Link.aspx">www.beliefnet.com</a>: "According to a study in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, which cites the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the United Nations International Study on Firearms Regulation, the more guns a nation has, the less criminal activity. In other words, more firearms, less crime, concludes the virtually unpublicized research report by attorney Don B. Kates and Dr. Gary Mauser. But the key is firearms in the hands of private citizens. “The study was overlooked when it first came out in 2007,” writes Michael Snyder, “but it was recently re-discovered and while the findings may not surprise some, the place where the study was undertaken is a bit surprising. The study came from the Harvard Journal of Law, that bastion of extreme, Ivy League liberalism. Titled Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?, the report “found some surprising things.” The popular assertion that the United States has the industrialized world’s highest murder rate, says the Harvard study, is a throwback to the Cold War when Russian murder rates were nearly four times higher than American rates. In a strategic disinformation campaign, the U.S. was painted worldwide as a gunslinging nightmare of street violence – far worse than what was going on in Russia. The line was repeated so many times that many believed it to be true. Now, many still do. Today violence continues in Russia – far worse than in the U.S. – although the Russian people remain virtually disarmed. “Similar murder rates also characterize the Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and various other now-independent European nations of the former U.S.S.R.,” note Kates and Mauser . Kates is a Yale-educated criminologist and constitutional lawyer. Dr. Mauser is a Canadian criminologist at Simon Fraser University with a Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine. “International evidence and comparisons have long been offered as proof of the mantra that more guns mean more deaths and that fewer guns, therefore, mean fewer deaths. Unfortunately, such discussions are all too often been afflicted by misconceptions and factual error.” By the early 1990s, Russia's murder rate was three times higher than that of the United States. Thus, “in the United States and the former Soviet Union transitioning into current-day Russia,” say Kates and Mauser, “homicide results suggest that where guns are scarce, other weapons are substituted in killings." Student of the Gun Radio airs every Monday through Thursday at 9 a.m. EST and can be found by going directly to <a href="http://www.studentofthegunradio.com">www.StudentoftheGunRadio.com</a>.Those using mobile devices can follow us with iTunes or Stitcher. SOTG Radio is a Think On! production. Student of the Gun is the #1 source for education, enjoyment and enlightenment of real-world firearms includ...
