Effectiveness of anti-gun laws

[FiremanBob]

Here's an interesting article from reason.com on the effectiveness of gun control laws in the US and elsewhere: http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/22/g ... red-defian

Regulations tightly control gun ownership in only a few European countries like the Netherlands, Poland, and the United Kingdom. In much of the rest of the continent, public officials readily admit that unlicensed owners and unregistered guns greatly outnumber legal ones. ...

"Greatly outnumber?” Just how greatly?

Well, says the Small Arms Survey, a research outfit established by the Swiss government, the United Kingdom, with just shy of 1.8 million legal firearms, has about four million illegal guns. Belgium, with about 458,000 legal firearms, has roughly two million illegal guns. In Germany, the number is 7.2 million legal guns and between 17 and 20 million off-the-books examples of things that go “bang” (a figure with which the German Police Union very publicly agrees). France, says the Survey, has 15-17 million unlawful firearms in a nation where 2.8 million weapons are held in compliance with the law.

The whole article is well worth reading.

[WRW]

Given those overwhelming numbers, the obvious answer is amnesty for all them illegals.

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[kelu]

Preaching to the choir?

[zerodown1]

They say locks only keep the honest people honest. If a criminal want's to get in , he will. Gun laws do the same thing, they keep the already law abiding , law abiding. We all know this, they all should know this ,and while the two sides wage war, the innocent get hurt. There will be time to have this battle, and we will, but our children go back to school in January and we cannot afford to wait for the politicians or anyone else. We must do something NOW, support the NRA's effort to put trained armed professional security in the schools to protect those children, even if it's just for a time while this battle is fought. We should not be any part of their being caught in the middle.

policenabmedad to everyone.