Anti-Gun MSN Blames Law Abiding Gun Owners For Police Slayings

By Tim

MSN came out with a story that every person that owned a weapon was personally responsible for the death of all policeman. Really MSN? That is a serious cheap shot even for a major news group.

Here are the exact words of MSN just so there will be no confusion:

US states with the highest levels of gun ownership are also the ones where police officers have the highest risk of being killed in the line of duty – the vast majority by gunfire, a study has shown.

Researchers found that states such as Montana, Arkansas, Alabama and Idaho, which have the highest rates of state-registered private gun ownership, also have the highest rates of homicide of law enforcement officers. States including Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey experience some of the lowest rates of both police officers killed and gun ownership.

“States should consider methods for reducing firearm ownership as a way to reduce occupational deaths of law enforcement officers,” was the blunt advice from the research paper published online on Thursday by the American Journal of Public Health.

Researchers studied the 782 homicides of police officers between 1996 and 2010 and gun ownership rates state …read more

Source:: GunsNFreedom