Re: The right to bear arms & make salad

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

> And the UK gun ban resulted in an INCREASE in crime with Guns, not a
> decrease:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1440764.stm

If we have to have this chauvinistic
knock-the-Brits-and-let's-all-have-the-right-to-shoot-people stuff
every so often, can we at least get some of the facts right? That
story concerns a misleading statistic from a biased source, and you're
misinterpreting it (as well as ignoring the conclusion of the story).
We didn't suddenly and arbitrarily ban guns in the 1990s, and there
wasn't an immediate exponential increase in UK gun-crime. If you want
to measure the effectiveness or otherwise of UK legislation in that
area (preferably without lecturing me about it), you need to take into
account laws that go back at least a century.

-- 
DH
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