Carjacked Mo St. legislator comments on personal safety in StLouis City, Dec 2016

al66pine · Dec 20, 2016

Context:
"Bruce Franks Jr., an incoming Missouri state representative, was carjacked at gunpoint Monday night .... and the attackers got away with Franks' cellphones and his personal handgun ...."
"Franks said he was robbed at about 7:20 p.m. in the parking lot of the Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street, by two men, one of whom had a gun. Franks was unharmed...police said...."
Franks stated, "I was thinking about just how big the gun violence problem is in our neighborhoods, especially in the city...."

This man w concealed carry permit candidly concluded about personal safety in St Louis:
"If I refuse to go to all the places where we've been affected by gun violence, then I'll be stuck in the house."

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_54b47f8c-aaed-5d9a-8683-13f343a12927.html Dec 20, 2016

Once sworn in, can he make headway in resolving this problem? IDK.

Indy Anna · Dec 20, 2016

IMO, he unwittingly contributed to the gun violence problem because now the bad guys have his gun.

hdear:

If he can solve the problem as state legislator, he may well be a future POTUS. :usa:

al66pine · Dec 20, 2016

Indy Anna said:
IMO, he unwittingly contributed to the gun violence problem because now the bad guys have his gun. hdear:
If he can solve the problem as state legislator, he may well be a future POTUS. :usa:

Yes, one more handgun (among the millions?) 'out there' in hands of bad guys.

A mere mortal who solves this problem may well be worshipped as a deity.

Sadly, I also suspect many people in many areas of many US cities feel as he does about personal safety.

Indy Anna · Dec 24, 2016

Guns Used in Crime (1995):

<snipped>

All stolen guns are available to criminals
by definition. Recent studies of
adult and juvenile offenders show that
many have either stolen a firearm or
kept, sold, or traded a stolen firearm:
According to the 1991 Survey of
State Prison Inmates, among those
inmates who possessed a handgun,
9% had acquired it through theft, and
28% had acquired it through an illegal
market such as a drug dealer or fence.
Of all inmates, 10% had stolen at least
one gun, and 11% had sold or traded
stolen guns.
Studies of adult and juvenile offenders
that the Virginia Department of
Criminal Justice Services conducted
in 1992 and 1993 found that 15% of
the adult offenders and 19% of the juvenile
offenders had stolen guns; 16%
of the adults and 24% of the juveniles
had kept a stolen gun; and 20% of the
adults and 30% of the juveniles had
sold or traded a stolen gun.
From a sample of juvenile inmates
in four States, Sheley and Wright
found that more than 50% had stolen
a gun at least once in their lives and
24% had stolen their most recently obtained
handgun. They concluded that
theft and burglary were the original, not
always the proximate, source of many
guns acquired by the juveniles.
[...]
The Victim Survey (NCVS) estimates
that there were 341,000 incidents of
firearm theft from private citizens annually
from 1987 to 1992. Because
the survey does not ask how many
guns were stolen, the number of guns
stolen probably exceeds the number
of incidents of gun theft.
The FBI's National Crime Information
Center (NCIC) stolen gun file contained
over 2 million reports as of
March 1995.

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/GUIC.PDF

And from a more recent article (2012):

WASHINGTON About 1.4 million firearms were stolen during household burglaries and other property crimes over the six-year period from 2005 through 2010, according to a report released today by the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). This number represents an estimated average of 232,400 firearms stolen each year about 172,000 stolen during burglaries and 60,300 stolen during other property crimes.

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/fshbopc0510pr.cfm

IMOO, statistics show that gun theft is not uncommon in the US and does contribute to subsequent crime. :moo:

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