Above: First Lady Michelle Obama celebrates her 2nd Amendment right to bare arms.
*Yes, I intentionally misspelled “bear.” As in,
the disarmament of Americans until the people have nothing to protectthemselves with except their bare arms, so to speak.
The discussion about gun rights is by no means a new
phenomenon. Proponents of gun control argue that we are all safer with
increased government regulation of the sale and ownership of firearms or the
outright confiscation of any gun they deem too scary-looking. However, the
simple facts tell us that strict gun control laws do not make us any safer.
In 1997, in
response to the Dunblane school shooting, Great Britain outlawed handguns and
enacted what are considered some of the strictest gun laws in the world. In the
first two years of the ban, use of handguns in violent crimes increased 40%.
Since last year, gun crime jumped 35% in England
and Wales.
There have also been dramatic increases in robbers, burglaries, assaults, and
drug-related offences. Overall, the amount of gun crime and violent crime in
general has doubled in Britain.
Also, there are up to 3 million illegal firearms circulating in the country
since the ban.
Washington D.C.
passed a handgun ban in 1976. Following the ban, the city saw a 150% surge in
murders and remains a regular contender for murder capital of America.
Chicago, the new murdercapital, banned handguns in 1982. In the first decade of the ban, there was a
41% increase in murders, doubling the national average. This past years, the
city logged over 500 homicides (compared to about 430 in 2011), most of which
involved firearms.
Chicago could seriously be
considered a warzone: by June 2012, gun-related deaths in
Chicago
outnumbered troop deaths in
Afghanistan
for 2012.
Government
prohibition of anything just doesn't seem to work. At all. Alcohol? Drinking skyrocketed and
criminals made fortunes. Drugs? Drug use is now pandemic and criminals are
making fortunes. Guns? Murder skyrockets as only criminals keep their illegal
guns and shootings are used as political footballs by
statists calling for even
more gun laws. Interesting pattern.
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