Curiously, a UK based broadcasting outfit called the “British Broadcasting Company” asks why American does not follow the example of New Zealand and ban self loading and trombone action firearms. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41489552
There is a really simple answer for that. We can see what John Majors gun ban has done to the UK, we have seen what
Even under the heavy editing Canberra does, we can see what John Howard’s extremely restrictive gun laws have done to Australia.
And now we see that the results of New Zealand’s Draconian gun laws are doing to a once tranquil country.
Since I do not have all night, I will confine my remarks for this post to the BBC’s homeland, and John Major’s near total gun ban. That ban is so complete that the British Olympic Shooting Team must go to France to practice. It is so complete that a widow who found a Cold 1911 buried hn her late husband’s desk was faced with two years imprisonment. It is so complete that the only people supposed to get a license to possess a gun are large animal breeders who are in constant danger from their animals.
But when Major rammed his gun confiscation scheme through Parliament, he claimed it would stop firearms facilitated violent crime. But instead of a decline in violent crime, the violent crime rate was 4.5 per 1,000 population between 16 and 65, the equivalent of the international standard’s 450 per 100,000 population.
Today, the official violent crime rate is 28 per 1,000, equivalent to 2800 per 100,000 population. But UK media, including the BBC, have run many news items detailing the police “fiddling” with the crime numbers. Since unsolved crimes, uninvestigated crimes, and crims reported but not found credible are deleted, the estimates of the actual UK violent crime rate after 24 years of a near total gun ban is between 4,000 and 5,000 violent crimes per 100,000 population. Plus a relatively small number of crimes committed against children, and a large number of violent crimes committed against those over 64.
The chart below shows the result of a near total gun ban on the violent crime rate. I have been informed the chart’s source is “The Crime Commission” but all I actually know is that it tracks the data published by the Office of National Statistics, Crime and Justice numbers.
With results like that, who needs gun control? As of last week there were almost 58,300 gun laws that have failed in the same way the John Majors gun ban have failed. But for all those laws, diligent search has failed to turn up a single gun law with results that a person of sound mind would consider beneficial.
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