🚀 go-pugleaf

Colin R. Leech (ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote:
: In a previous message, somebody who doesn't even have the guts to sign his
: own name, Orion (orion@unix.infoserve.net) wrote:
: >   Not one person has been able to point out how gun registration in 
: > Canada will make it any tougher for *criminals* to get guns; 

: If nothing else, restricting the availability of guns will help limit
: their use in domestic violence and domestic accidents. However, it is
: clear that every little step towards making them harder to obtain *will*
: have some small impact on their usage, despite the protestations of people
: like yourself. 


  That's pretty amusing in the face of the *fact* that many nations 
which have even tougher 'gun control' than Canada have higher homicide 
rates than either Canada or the USA, and that many nations/states with laxer 
(or no) restrictions have LOWER homicide rates -

  (would you like to see a list, Colin?  No...I didn't think so...;)

  - or that much-vaunted examples such as Great Britain had lower 
firearms crime/murder rates *before* the introduction of stricter 'gun 
control'.  In fact, while the numbers of (legal) gun owners in Britain 
have been declining due to a hostile gun control bureaucracy the number 
of crimes involving firearms increased _196%_ between 1981 and 1992.

  (Criminal Statistics England and Wales, 1992 (UK Home Office, Research 
and Statistics Dept.))


  "Batting 1000" as usual, eh Colin?  :)