But gun control “works!”:http://www.record-bee.com/Stories/0,1413,255%7E33909%7E2743079,00.html
bq. _*Crime rates in England have skyrocketed since the ban was enacted. According to economist John Lott of the American Enterprise Institute, the violent crime rate has risen 69 percent since 1996, with robbery rising 45 percent and murders rising 54 percent. This is even more alarming when you consider that from 1993 to 1997 armed robberies had fallen by 50 percent. Recent information released by the British Home Office shows that trend is continuing.*_
Read the entire thing – especially the bit about the difference in violent crime between states that aloow you to carry, and those that don’t.
And of course you remember “this little CDC meta-analysis.”:http://www.nukevet.com/rnsarchive/archives/2003/10/data_be_damned.html You know, the one that was unable to show any benefit to any gun control laws enacted? Of course, the CDC conclusion wasn’t that gun control laws don’t work – it was that they needed to do more “high quality” studies until they got the result they wanted. Sort of like counting “votes for governor in Washington State.”:http://www.nukevet.com/rnsarchive/archives/2005/01/more_washington.html
Via “A Rifleman”:http://www.kimdutoit.com/ee/index.php/rant/single/we_knew_that_would_happen/