Re: FBI: More Guns == Less Crime

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

Maybe they didn't ask anyone who lives in the UK?

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009, Les Bell wrote:

> Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
>
> > >
> As a long-time UK resident, I'm pretty sure that we've had gun control
> laws since before I was born.
> <<
>
> Absolutely. And the idea that violent crime quadrupled because suddenly (in
> the nineties) innocent citizenry were rendered defenseless, having had
> their guns taken away, is likewise ludicrous. There were very few gun
> owners in the first place and nobody* carried firearms in public, not even
> the police. Ergo, there was no removal of a deterrent leading to an
> increase in violent crime.
>
> I don't know where the NRA gets its data from. . .
>
> Best,
>
> --- Les Bell
> [http://www.lesbell.com.au]
> Tel: +61 2 9451 1144
>
> * Well, not *quite* nobody, but vanishingly close to nobody.

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