The Chronicle printed a brief letter suggesting gun owners may resist unconstitutional restrictions on gun rights. And we may well. If rumores of the number of capped sewer pipe and anti-rust gun storage containers there are buried are even twice the truth, the Dems can start confiscating and the people they seek to control will still have adequate arms.
But even at that, the people will not have enough guns to keep the criminal element reined in. Estimates of the percentage of homes that could effectively deter criminal intrusion are as high as 30%. The areas suffering surges in violent crime surges such as Boston, New York City, Baltimore, Alexandria, Chicago, and so on have too few guns in the hands of law abiding gun owners to keep criminals in check.
The result of restrictive gun laws has ALWAYS resulted in a surge in violent crime, the more restrictive the law, the greater the surge. Within the range from 0.7 to 240 murders per 100,000 population, you can have any murder rate you want, by tightening or loosening restrictions in gun ownership.
The chart below shows the murder rate in German cities where records have not been destroyed by war or water. As you can see, before guns became cheap enough for a prosperous peasant to afford,, around 1820. gims were rare. and the murder rate was as high as 100 per 100,000 and 10 per 100,000, declining as a criminals chances of being shot increased.
When guns became cheap enough for general use, Germany’s murder rate dropped dramatically, dropping well below 1.0 per 100,000 in 1910. After WWI, under the gun ban imposed by British Prim Minister David Lloyd George violent crime, including murder, went “over the moon.”
The chart tells the whole history of a country’s experience with gun control. Yet there are people who fear their neighbors so much that they would ban guns and live with the resultant high crime rates that occur whenever criminals and the government are the only ones with guns
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