Virginia Tech anniversary creates difficult moment on gun control for lawmakers

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21. It's a flawed article...

Prohibitedlawed pretenses with flawed analysis and a flawed presentation of statistics. In short, it is just the sort of right-wing rubbish you would expect from a right-winger like Richard Munday.

Here is proof this guy is a massive imbecile with an agenda:

The firearms massacres that have periodically caused shock and horror around the world have been dwarfed by the Mumbai shootings, in which a handful of gunmen left some 500 people killed or wounded.

For anybody who still believed in it, the Mumbai shootings exposed the myth of “gun control”. India had some of the strictest firearms laws in the world, going back to the Indian Arms Act of 1878, by which Britain had sought to prevent a recurrence of the Indian Mutiny.

The guns used in last week’s Bombay massacre were all “prohibited weapons” under Indian law, just as they are in Britain. In this country we have seen the irrelevance of such bans (handgun crime, for instance, doubled here within five years of the prohibition of legal pistol ownership), but the largely drug-related nature of most extreme violence here has left most of us with a sheltered awareness of the threat. We have not yet faced a determined and broad-based attack.

The Mumbai massacre also exposed the myth that arming the police force guarantees security. Sebastian D’Souza, a picture editor on the Mumbai Mirror who took some of the dramatic pictures of the assault on the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station, was angered to find India’s armed police taking cover and apparently failing to engage the gunmen.

What a foolishly inflammatory and stupidly reasoned argument. Would you care to defend such tomfoolery?

Also, this isn't Free Republic, we respect copyright law as best as can be discerned. I reasoned the poster could use a heads-up.