Reply #24: You mean 115,000 Americans shot isn't enough blood for you?

[MrBenchley]

"Like they did after Florida passed a CCW law in the late 80's?"
Funny thing about that. They actually passed their idiotic law that passed out pistol permits like candy in 1986. Between 1986 and 1993, when the Brady law and the Assault Weapons Ban were finally passed, violent crime in Florida jumped 31%....

It declined nationwide after 1993, mostly due to Clinton's gun control laws and his COPS program, but it declined more slowly in Florida than it did in states with sane gun laws.

"Or how the 30+ other states that passed CCW laws would also have booming crime and murder rates?"
Australia and Texas each have about 20 million citizens. Australia has about 100 gun deaths a year, Texas has about 1,400....and according to gun loonies, it's Australia that has the gun problem.

The plain fact is that letting the gun lobby set public policy on this issue has been a flat out disaster, and that America has levels of shooting and bloodshed commensurate with a third world country.