Reply #24: Those conclusions aren't backed up by historical fact.

[X_Digger]

After the UK tightened down firearm ownership, "a reduction in the percentage of households owning firearms", their homicide rate went up.

http://reason.com/archives/2002/11/01/gun-controls-twisted-outcome


"The level of gun ownership world-wide is directly related to murder and suicide rates and specifically to the level of death by gunfire."

Then how do you explain that we have one of the highest firearm ownership rates, yet a perfectly average suicide rate, beating out countries that effectively ban civilian ownership (japan) and countries with some of the toughest firearm ownership laws?



It's very nice for professor so-and-so to say what should happen, but when it bumps up against reality, reality wins. Every time.