by Dave Blount | December 17, 2012 2:20 pm
Following the horrific massacre in Newtown, all liberals can agree that we need still more stringent gun control — something along the lines of what they have in hyper-statist Britain. Let’s see[1] what effect once great Britain’s draconian authoritarianism has had. Here’s a report from 2009:
The latest Government figures show that the total number of firearm offences in England and Wales has increased from 5,209 in 1998/99 to 9,865 last year — a rise of 89 per cent.
In some parts of the country, the number of offences has increased more than five-fold.
In eighteen police areas, gun crime at least doubled.
Tony Blair and his gang of Labour leftists used the Dunblane Massacre[2] as a pretext to inflict the Nazi-esque Firearms Acts[3] in 1997. They banned private ownership of all handguns.
Lancashire suffered the single largest rise in gun crime, with recorded offences increasing from 50 in 1998/99 to 349 in 2007/08, an increase of 598 per cent. …
The number of people injured or killed by guns, excluding air weapons, has increased from 864 in 1998/99 to a provisional figure of 1,760 in 2008/09, an increase of 104 per cent.
If you find this even remotely surprising, please read John Lott’s More Guns Less Crime[4].
Is there any reason for us to repeat Britain’s foolish mistakes?
On a tip from Ghost of FA Hayek. Cross-posted at Moonbattery[5].
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