Gun owners?

[Neo-Scholastic]

Unfortunately the facts simply do not support the opinion that more gun ownership means less crime. The opposite was demonstrated to be true in Harvard’s Journal of Public Law and Policy, volume 30, “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide”.

Page 655 has the following tid-bit:

“In the late 1990s, England moved from stringent controls to a complete ban of all handguns and many types of long guns. Hundreds of thousands of guns were confiscated from those owners law‐abiding enough to turn them in to authorities. Without suggesting this caused violence, the ban’s ineffective‐ ness was such that by the year 2000 violent crime had so in‐ creased that England and Wales had Europe’s highest violent crime rate, far surpassing even the United States.”

Another interesting statistic: for 1 every gun crime there are 80 instances in which a crime has been thwarted by the use of a privately owned gun.

I mean, look at all those British people being constantly raped and murdered waymore than the overly armed Americans because they cannot own a handgun for protection....oh wait.

I know, facts suck.

Indeed they do.


BTW I used to believe that the mere presence of guns in a society contributed to crime. The facts have convinced me otherwise.