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A 3 page review of burglary rates as they compare with gun regulation. The author specifically compares data from Arlington Texas, Dallas Texas, and Boston Massachusetts. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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statistics. The reasons for this variance are many. Evidence would tend to support the contention, however, that crimes such as home burglaries occur less frequently in areas where
the citizenry is allowed, or perhaps even encouraged, to own guns. Indeed, interviews with criminals that have been incarcerated for burglary have reported somewhat consistently that the knowledge that
a homeowner was likely to be armed was a definite factor in their deciding against burglarizing a particular house. The contention that gun ownership deters burglaries is further supported
by looking at crime statistics for metropolitan areas where guns are allowed or even encouraged and comparing those statistics to those generated from metropolitan areas where gun ownership is outlawed
or heavily regulated. For the purposes of this paper three specific metropolitan areas will be compared. Those areas are Arlington Texas, Dallas Texas, and Boston Massachusetts.
When the rate of burglaries in Texas is compared to the rate of burglaries in Massachusetts, the result is shocking. The same holds true
in a municipality to municipality comparison of the two states. Arlington, for example, has a population of 365,380 (Nemerov, 2006). In 2005, 3,984 burglaries were committed in the
municipality. This translates to a rate of 0.011 burglaries per citizen (Nemerov, 2006). Boston Massachusetts, in contrast, has a population of 567,589 (Nemerov, 2006). In 2005, 25,205
burglaries were committed in Boston (Nemerov, 2006). Boston, of course is considerably bigger than Arlington. Never-the-less, the rate of burglaries there, some 0.044 burglaries per citizen, is four
times that of the smaller municipality (Nemerov, 2006)! Antigun lobbyist would contend, of course, that Bostons larger size makes it more
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