This warning has been around for a year, but largely ignored. It doesn't fit the "logic" of liberals and progressives.
Yes, but England is so much safer with it's strict gun controls.
The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents [LESS THAN 1/4 THAT OF THE U.K.], Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609. [source]
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Joyce Lee Malcolm: Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control
What to conclude? Strict gun laws in Great Britain and Australia haven't made their people noticeably safer, nor have they prevented massacres. The two major countries held up as models for the U.S. don't provide much evidence that strict gun laws will solve our problems.
Ms. Malcolm, a professor of law at George Mason University Law School, is the author of several books including "Guns and Violence: The English Experience," (Harvard, 2002).
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