An item that appears to have been written by one of Bloomberg’s propagandists is making the rounds in Ohio, complaining that a hastily drafted gun ban bill sold as a cure for “gun violence” has gone nowhere in the Legislature. https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200803/dayton-shooting-one-year-later-bills-in-ohio-to-curb-gun-violence-go-nowhere
The $64 billion dollar question is simple enough. restrictive gun laws have a 525 history with just ulcer 65,000 such laws to cit as examples of successful gun laws. Yet those who advocate gun control cannot cite a regularly enforced law placing restrictions on firearms have succeeded in reducing crime, making anyone safer or doing anything someone of sound mind would consider a success. Alll the gun control activists have to sell is promises of benefits that have never once appeared.
For example, when the UK banned guns, the violent crime rate, the number of murders, rapes, armed robberies, and violent assaults was 450 per 100,000 population. Now after 26 years, the violent crime rate is officially 2800 per 100,000 population. And that low number is achieved by excluding murders, and crimes against those 15 and under and 65 and older.
Contrast that with America’s 2018 violent crime rate of 3990 per 100,000. There is no comparison. The United Kingdom has a violent crime rate that is almost certainly ten times the US rate, but most of us can buy and keep guns – while only those engaged in “large animal husbandry” are allowed shotguns in the UK.
Or take a look at the “wonderful benefits” gun control has brought to Ohio. The chart below shows the rise in violent crime as Ohio’s gun laws were tightened, and the decline after those laws were somewhat relaxed can be verified with the FBI data, here: http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/ohcrime.htm
Given the facts, it should be obvious that Ohio would be far better off to preempt all local ordinances restricting guns, repeaal all State laws restricting guns, and allow anyone who can pass a FBI instant background check, eventually bringing violent crimes to the levels in had when ony one fifth of Ohio homes had locks on exterior ddoors.
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