5 March 2018, 18:15
Gun control is designed to stop people from killing each other, at least that’s what we are always told...
Let’s take a look at the data:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-facts-...ol/207152/
United Kingdom:
The UK enacted its handgun ban in 1996. From 1990 until the ban was enacted, the homicide rate fluctuated between 10.9 and 13 homicides per million. After the ban was enacted, homicides trended up until they reached a peak of 18.0 in 2003. Since 2003, which incidentally was about the time the British government flooded the country with 20,000 more cops, the homicide rate has fallen to 11.1 in 2010. In other words, the 15-year experiment in a handgun ban has achieved absolutely nothing.
Ireland: Ireland banned firearms in 1972. Ireland’s homicide rate was fairly static going all the way back to 1945. In that period, it fluctuated between 0.1 and 0.6 per 100,000 people. Immediately after the ban, the murder rate shot up to 1.6 per 100,000 people in 1975. It then dropped back down to 0.4. It has trended up, reaching 1.4 in 2007.
Australia: Australia enacted its gun ban in 1996. Murders have basically run flat, seeing only a small spike after the ban and then returning almost immediately to preban numbers. It is currently trending down, but is within the fluctuations exhibited in other nations...
So now the Russian government has made it clear that their real objective is to remove rifles from civilian hands. Their reasoning is clear: you need rifles to overthrow a government...
US gun owners have noted recent attempts to revive the Assault Weapons Ban with interest and would remind Congress of the result which followed the last time gun confiscation was attempted here...
Administrative and Regulatory Law News (American Bar Association). Vol. 37, no. 4, Summer 2012. Kopel on the right to arms in the Founding Era.
http://www.davekopel.org/RKBA-Law-Histor...unding_Era
Let’s take a look at the data:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-facts-...ol/207152/
United Kingdom:
The UK enacted its handgun ban in 1996. From 1990 until the ban was enacted, the homicide rate fluctuated between 10.9 and 13 homicides per million. After the ban was enacted, homicides trended up until they reached a peak of 18.0 in 2003. Since 2003, which incidentally was about the time the British government flooded the country with 20,000 more cops, the homicide rate has fallen to 11.1 in 2010. In other words, the 15-year experiment in a handgun ban has achieved absolutely nothing.
Ireland: Ireland banned firearms in 1972. Ireland’s homicide rate was fairly static going all the way back to 1945. In that period, it fluctuated between 0.1 and 0.6 per 100,000 people. Immediately after the ban, the murder rate shot up to 1.6 per 100,000 people in 1975. It then dropped back down to 0.4. It has trended up, reaching 1.4 in 2007.
Australia: Australia enacted its gun ban in 1996. Murders have basically run flat, seeing only a small spike after the ban and then returning almost immediately to preban numbers. It is currently trending down, but is within the fluctuations exhibited in other nations...
So now the Russian government has made it clear that their real objective is to remove rifles from civilian hands. Their reasoning is clear: you need rifles to overthrow a government...
US gun owners have noted recent attempts to revive the Assault Weapons Ban with interest and would remind Congress of the result which followed the last time gun confiscation was attempted here...
Administrative and Regulatory Law News (American Bar Association). Vol. 37, no. 4, Summer 2012. Kopel on the right to arms in the Founding Era.
http://www.davekopel.org/RKBA-Law-Histor...unding_Era