Ok, so I waxed poetic about the CDC gun law meta-analysis below.
Here's a bit more fuel for the fire - reported by the Guardian, no less.
The obligatory teaser:
According to the Association of Chief Police Officers, gun crime is 'growing like a cancer' and spreading to smaller communities.
Police intelligence suggests Shabir and Hussain were the tip of the iceberg. Hundreds of similar gun factories have been set up in homes across the country and detectives admit guns are being put on the streets more quickly than they can take them off. For the past 12 months police in Nottingham have been running Operation Stealth, an anti-firearms initiative. The team has made more than 580 arrests and recovered 160 weapons, 10 fewer than the Birmingham duo produced in a quarter of the time. The murder rate in Nottinghamshire has almost doubled. 'We're getting the right information,' says Assistant Chief Constable Peter Ditchett, 'but we're just not getting enough of it.'
Last year saw a record 35 per cent jump in gun crimes, which means there are now, on average, 30 incidents each day. There were almost 10,000 incidents involving firearms recorded in England and Wales and, although the largest increases were in metropolitan areas, the figures showed use of handguns was also growing in rural communities. Overall, handguns were used in almost half of these incidents.
Ooooh, yeah. Strict gun control works, all right. It works at insuring that the only people armed are criminals.
Posted by Neal (Nukevet) at October 06, 2003 09:28 AM | TrackBackGun control doesn't work! Wake up! When only the government and criminals* have guns, then what are the people to defend themselves with?
* = consider the government and criminals to be nearly the same thing.
Posted by: ....a moment with Easycure on October 6, 2003 01:19 PMWell Prohibition didn't work here, so why would a firearm version work in Britain? I had kinda wondered how long it would take for somebody to start trying to make guns at home.
Posted by: Eric Sivula on October 6, 2003 02:27 PMHow about mentioning the skyrocketing crime rate in Britain? London is now three times as violent as NYC. In Paris there are many no go areas due to all those peace loving Arabs.
Posted by: THomas J. Jackson on October 7, 2003 12:34 AM