At the same location? Wow. These guys live a sad life constantly looking over their shoulders. Yeah I know they're not saints I'm just saying its a pretty sad life.

The latest Harvard University study, conducted by Professor of Law Don Kates among others, yet again provides extensive facts and figures to prove what you say.

Put simply: you want less crime? Simple, put more guns in the hands of law abiding citizens and watch the crime rate drop because criminals do not like to pick on citizens who can defend themselves.

Crime in America is falling, despite the media hysteria, because gun laws have been liberalized during the past thirty years.

States with harsh gun laws have high crime rates, states with relaxed gun laws enjoy low crime rates.

More guns = less crime.

This cant be a serious comment, have you ever listened to the posts from this young man? He is angry at the world. He would be Leslie Miller 40yrs younger with a gun. Trayvon Martin would be a joke. Want less crime? Start enforcing the law, start electing officials who are not benefitting from the proceeds of drugs, gambling, document forgery, human smuggling, gun running, bribery, prostitution and maybe then you wil have people who are actually interested in cleaning up the police force, govt offices and doing something about crime in general

I must agree with you 'Thisisours' because if we follow what paul_vincent_zecchino says, with the "bad apples" we have already in official positions what will happen then when a shipment of weapons go "missing". Gun runners wouldn't have to no longer smuggle them into the country. Besides that with the criminals knowing the possibility of a citizen processing a weapon is greater, their mentality would increase to shoot first then ask questions later (the criminal that is). Homes of 'law abiding citizens' would just have one more commodity to be broken into for. Speaking about law abiding citizens, ever wondered the individuals found drinking and driving, speeding, assaulting, robbery, theft, and the list goes on, where they once came from. Yep you guessed it, the barrel of law abiding citizens. More guns = even more crime. Its funny how you people take these studies from anyone with 'doctor', 'professor', or some other to follow step by step, yet simple instructions by Jehovah God you over looked.

I do not agree

When you talk about "the latest Harvard study," do you by any chance mean an article in the "Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy" six years ago? That journal is a student-edited journal with a clear political agenda, not a faculty driven journal. Don Kates is not associated with Harvard University.

Having read the article (http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/org…), I immediately notice that the methodology is severely flawed, and that many of the assumptions are outright preposterous.

The deeper problem is that all the people who are crying out for more guns essentially want a violent fix for the symptoms of crime, but are not prepared to investigate the causes of crime. I suspect for fear that they might have to come to terms with an inconvenient truth.

The criminals would just get more powerful weapons, shoot first and then take whatever possessions they were after. What would be the response then? Give everybody uzis?

I would suspect that most places with higher crimes also have higher population densities and coming with that, more social ills which (I'm guessing) probably has a greater causal effect on the rate of crime. when they cleaned up NY they didn't arm anybody, they took weapons away.

Bandaid response...start addressing the social issues...and punishing all crimes not just the socially unacceptable ones...We have guys on every street corner selling marijuana...all kinds of people pulling up to buy...if I know about it, I don't know why the police don't know about it...it's become socially acceptable. People embezzle from govt corps and the Union **DEFENDS** them, tells the employer they can't be fired?!?! Our heads are upside down...gun violence is just one of the manifestations of how dirty and sordid we've become

The illegality of "weed " makes more crime then does the actual usage . Most people that smoke just want to chill out ,grab some food and make love to their lady /man .If it was legal these lil gang bangers wouldn,t have money to buy guns or turf to fight over ..They would still rob and kill b/c thats there thing but they would have less money for guns ...,but then some would argue house breaking ,robbery would go up b/c there is less money coming into the inner city through drug sales ..still i think its a waste of time locking up a working man /women for a 1/2 bag of grass

When noticing the rate of guns in the hands of good citizens, notice also the gun shops are near by for the citizens to obtain them. By that being said gun shops providing various guns (hand guns/high powered guns) are not in the Bahamas. If any government of the Bahamas wanted to do something with illegal weapons coming into the country, when building the boat port on Arawak Cay, a large x-ray machine would have been in the budget. Officials could hike the import price on tire dealers with the excuse of disposal fee yet to hell with the problem of illegal guns. If smuggling guns or money from drugs was any persons interest an investment of purchasing a wreck car just to use as a suitcase for transit into the country is most affordable or any other bulky sizable object, because again the government wants to just tax the import of goods without having proper tools put in place to assure the safety of us the citizens from the danger some citizens would bring into our land.

For the killings to stop three things must happen:
1.The police must stop abusing young men physically and mentally, locking them up on false charges and sending them to jail, falsely accused. Many of them return to society, bitter, with few options for employment and easy prey for corrupt cops. Sad to say that not every person that puts on a police uniform and shows to work is a police officer as satan has planted his workers deep into even the core of this organization. Many of them are even claiming to be pastors and part-time church leaders to cover up their corrupt and dirty behavior. By their fruits you shall know them because they recruit and train younger officers in their work for the devil.
2. Government must step in and assist our young men, many of whom are idle, unemployed and unable to provide basic essentials for themselves, less family. Spending a few million a year on a program that will get many of our young men off the streets and gainfully employed will be much less costly than the price we are now paying
with the crime and murder rate out-of-control, families being torn apart by street warfare, society being crippled with crime and the fear of it and the fact that so many persons are willing to take the law into their own hands, even if it means committing a murder.
3 Too many of our public officials seem to be living contrary to the laws they create and in public squabble. We seem to have adapted the idea of washing everyone's dirty linen in public and with 'no holds are barred'. We seem to have the mentality that 'if we go down, we taking the country with us."

The demonic "trick' with the police-pastor relationship is that when a person complains about a police's behavior he also finds that he is complaining about pastor or 'a man of the cloth'. So since the person does not want to question the character of 'a man of God", he must squash his complaint against him and in the same effect squash his complaint against him as a police office...and so they go on with their dirty work...hiding behind the police uniform and the pulpit.

Then how do explain the low crime rates in countries that are not overtly religous ,ie Sweden ,Denmark ,Norway ??

Christian law, the ten commandments, for the most part is basic common law, stealing, adultery, to covert , bearing of false witnesses, murder, honoring of your parents (or elders in society). where there is no law or no law enforcement, then there is lawlessness. The fact that many families in the Bahamas are broken, if not dysfunctional does play a significant role in crime but we do have persons who are taking advantage of the single mothers and the fatherless children..and many of them have on uniforms or hold offices of authority