{"id":904,"date":"2016-09-27T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2016\/09\/27\/we-need-hand-registration\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:26:59","slug":"we-need-hand-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"We Need Hand Registration!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9131,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.breitbart.com\\\/2nd-amendment\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/26\\\/fbi-twice-as-many-killed-with-bare-hands-than-rifles-in-2015&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251016160101\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.breitbart.com\\\/2nd-amendment\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/26\\\/fbi-twice-as-many-killed-with-bare-hands-than-rifles-in-2015\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 11:27:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 11:27:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9132,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ucr.fbi.gov\\\/crime-in-the-u.s\\\/2015\\\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015\\\/tables\\\/table-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nIf you were a kid growing up in the Sixties (or maybe any era), there were always playground myths. One of the ones I remember was that if you had a Black Belt in Karate you were required to register your hands with the police. I think earlier generations may have had something similar about champion boxers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this was just a myth based partly on the unknown. Karate was considered strange and foreign and imbued with super-human effectiveness. You didn&#8217;t have karate as an Olympic sport then and you certainly didn&#8217;t have dojos on every corner training little kids in the martial arts so as to teach them self-discipline.<\/p>\n<p>I bring this up because I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2016\/09\/26\/fbi-twice-as-many-killed-with-bare-hands-than-rifles-in-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saw an article by AWR Hawkins<\/a> on the just released <a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2015\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015\/tables\/table-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 FBI Uniform Crime Reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>According to the FBI, approximately 252 people were killed with rifles in 2015. Nearly twice that figure\u2013approximately 595\u2013were killed with \u201chands, fists, or feet, etc.\u201d<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>These numbers are not unprecedented. Breitbart News reported that the FBI\u2019s 2014 Uniform Crime Report showed the number of people killed with a rifle that year was approximately 251. Over twice that figure\u2013approximately 670\u2013were killed by being beaten to death with \u201chands, fists, or feet, etc.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking at the individual states, you see places like New York, California, Massachusetts, and Maryland which highly regulate &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; with ratios as high as 20:1 of deaths by hands or feet when compared to deaths where a rifle was used. I suppose the gun prohibitionists would make the argument that you see such high ratios because of how these states regulate these &#8220;killing machines&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This argument fails when &nbsp;you see that virtually unregulated shotguns are used just as often as the murder weapon of choice as a rifle in those states. It has similarly high ratios when compared to deaths by hands and feet.<\/p>\n<p>A quick glace at the state by state murder statistics tells me two things. First, the total number murdered in a state is highly dependent on the population of the state. Second, there are going to be states like Louisiana which are just outliers. They have a murder rate that is much greater proportionately than many other states. I don&#8217;t know Louisiana law but I&#8217;m thinking that great Southern rationale of &nbsp;&#8220;he needed killing&#8221; might be a valid defense to the charge of murder there.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a kid growing up in the Sixties (or maybe any era), there were always playground myths.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1773,1001],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fbi-uniform-crime-reports","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10834,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/10834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}