Bill clamps down on alcohol and gun crime If passed, the bill will raise the age of buying knives from 16 to 18, ban the sale of replica guns, make it an offence to use other people to carry knives or guns, and allow headteachers to search pupils for weapons. - Matthew Tempest, June 8, 2005 [Guardian UK]
Terror raids staff live in fear Staff at a car firm are afraid for their lives after two armed robberies in three days. - January 22, 2005 [icBirmingham]
Burglars have rights too, says Attorney General He [Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general] said that criminals must also have the right to protection from violence. - Melissa Kite and Andrew Alderson, December 12, 2004 [news.telegraph.uk]
Fewer guns, more death Gun-control enthusiasts in the United States and western Europe have a lot to answer for on the heels of two reports last week that prove, beyond a doubt, the barbaric lunacy of ensuring citizens are defenseless against armed criminal threats. - Jon Dougherty, October 10, 2003 [WorldNetDaily.com]
Parole denied to farmer jailed for killing burglar Tony Martin, the farmer jailed for shooting dead a teenage burglar, last night learned he will not be freed early because he still refuses to concede what he did was wrong. - Steven Morris, January 17, 2003 [BBC News]
Gun crime soars by 35% Gun crime has risen by 35% in a year, new Home Office figures show. - January 13, 2003 [BBC News]
Gun Control Myths: The Case of England ...in recent years the murder rate in England has been going up under still more severe gun control laws, while the murder rate in the United States has been going down as more and more states have allowed private citizens to carry concealed weapons -- and have begun locking up more criminals. - Thomas Sowell, November 26, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]
The Rights of Englishmen Liberty-minded Americans who rage at the USA-Patriot Act and the Bush Administration’s treatment of accused terrorists should look across the ocean for an ominous precedent. - David Dieteman, July 15, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
Rough Justice Pity poor Tony Martin as he languishes in jail surrounded by those whom the British State was meant to protect him from. - Roland Watson, July 11 , 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
Shotgun advert attacked An advertisement with similarities to the case of farmer Tony Martin, who is serving a prison sentence after shooting two burglars, has been criticised by the industry watchdog. - January 30, 2002 [BBC]
A country in the crosshairs While Britain has some of the toughest firearms laws in the world, the recent spate of gun murders in London has highlighted a disturbing growth in armed crime. - January 4, 2002 [BBC]
Gunman killed by police marksman An inquiry was launched yesterday after Derbyshire police marksmen shot dead a man carrying an unloaded home made shotgun. - David Ward, November 2, 2001 [The Guardian]
Gun-Control Laws Don't Stop Gun Crimes in Britain An increase in firearms crimes in Britain has authorities questioning whether gun-control laws there -- among the strictest in the world -- have been misguided. - Ellen Hale, August 7, 2001 [USA Today]
Gun Control Kills "Researchers found that gun crime throughout the UK has risen a whopping 40 percent since lawmakers passed a near-total handgun ban in 1997." - Jon E. Dougherty, July 18, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]
Gun Control Does Not Work "As if we didn't know already, illegal use of firearms has little to do with legal possession of firearms. It is now believed there are over 300,000 firearms in Britain which are readily accessible to anyone with murder on their minds." - Roland Watson, July 18, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
Britain: From Bad to Worse - Dave Kopel, Dr. Paul Gallant & Dr. Joanne Eisen, March 22, 2001 [NewsMax.com]
"Gun Control" Advocates Make Britain Safe--for Thieves, Rapists, and Muggers According to the arguments of gun-control advocates, Britain should be safe and crime free now that all hand guns are outlawed. But, alas, violent crime and robberies have skyrocketed. What went wrong? - Paul Craig Roberts, March 3, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]
The Unnatural Death of a Natural Right In scenes evocative of A Clockwork Orange, cities across Great Britain are being increasingly terrorized by bands of young thugs who beat, rob, shoot, and rape their way to the top of the criminal food chain. - Timothy Wheeler, M.D., September 18, 2000 [Claremont Institute]
Fear in Britain [NRO] A brand-new report from the Inspectorate of Constabulary charges Britain's 43 police departments with systemic under-classification of crime—for example, by recording burglary as 'vandalism.' - Dr. Paul Gallant, July 18, 2000 [NRO]
Results are in on British Gun Laws Our friends across the Atlantic did tighten their already strict gun laws, with the Firearms Act of 1997, making self defense with a firearm completely impossible for ordinary people. Obedient British subjects generally maintained a stiff upper lip as they surrendered their guns and their rights. How much did crime drop as a result of this sacrifice? It did not drop at all. In fact, according to the local newspapers, England is being swept by a wave of crime, including plenty of gun crimes. - Dr. Michael S. Brown, January 18, 2000
Killings rise as 3m illegal guns flood Britain Up TO 3m illegal guns are in circulation in Britain, leading to a rise in drive-by shootings and gangland-style executions, new figures have revealed." - Jon Ungoed-Thomas, January 16, 2000 [sunday-times.co.uk]
Did Britain's anti-gun laws save ex-Beatle Harrison? England, because of its zero tolerance for handguns, enjoys a reputation as a quaint, civil, law-abiding nation. But, in many major categories of crime -- robbery, burglary, assault, and motor vehicle theft -- England's per capita rate exceeds America's. - Larry Elder, January 7, 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]
England and Gun Control - Moral Decline of an Empire It seems that when it comes to the issue of gun control, England has never gotten over the shock of the American Revolution, when a band of patriots, ordinary armed citizens, citizens who were very protective of their rights and liberties, challenged the mighty British empire, and ultimately prevailed. - Dr. Miguel A. Faria, Jr., 1999
Visiting Britain: A Sobering Experience This last summer I visited Britain with my family, and I was astonished...we also saw a lot of very disturbing signs of the rising criminal culture there. These signs were especially disturbing since, by law, we were completely disarmed--even tear gas is prohibited. - Clayton E. Cramer
Self-defenseless in Great Britain: the Spreading Epidemic In order to better understand where efforts to disarm Americans are leading, we need only look at what has happened in Great Britain during the 20th century, where Brits have been slowly conditioned to accept the notion that self-defense with any weapon is never acceptable, and that firearms are suitable only for sporting purposes.
Gun Control Experiment Failing In Great Britain - Gun and knife control in Britain fails as crime surges beyond U.S. rate While Great Britain's violent crime rate is lower than that of the U.S., the incidence of violent crime in England and Wales has more than doubled in the past ten years during which gun and knife control laws have been on the books. Britain's systematic removal of all self-protection weapons from its citizens has made it nearly impossible for people to defend themselves. - [Prophecy Club]
AUSTRALIA: The Results Are In! One year after gun-owners were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms, including semi-automatic .22 rifles and shotguns, to be destroyed in a government program costing over 500 million dollars, the results are in... - [NRA]
Kangaroo court condemns gun ads Australian government's own stats on crime confirm NRA charges. - Jon E. Dougherty, March 30, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]
Australia shoots back at NRA Australian government officials have accused the National Rifle Association of using inaccurate statistics in a new television ad about gun crime down under. - Jon E. Dougherty, March 24, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]
Crime up Down Under Since Australia's gun ban, armed robberies increase 45%. - Jon E. Dougherty, March 3, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]
Gun control a tragic failure in Australia The Australian government and its gun-grabbing allies managed to squander a half-billion-dollars of public treasure, trample on civil liberties, make its streets unsafe and the elderly targets in their homes. - Kip Allen, September 29, 1999 [Desert Sun Online]
Gun Control in Australia - Chaos Down Under "Licensing is difficult. Self and family protection is not considered a valid reason to own a firearm. The right to self-defense, like in Great Britain and Canada, is not recognized in Australia, Like Americans, Australians loved and possessed firearms - that is until the ban. Freedom has been extinguished. A way of life has ended. Please, don't tell me it cannot happen here!"
Australian Gun Control Problems "The following articles come from Australian newspapers. While they don't 'prove' anything, they are indicators of what many people have said before - Take away firearms from the law abiding and crime rises. Corruption of police authority becomes more rampant as police officers find ways to line their pockets, unafraid of the public. And worse yet, the police seek even more authority and special powers to imprison people or confiscate their property."
Gun Control really does work! [KC3] ...in increasing violence against unarmed citizens - "Australia banned private ownership of most guns in 1996, crime has risen dramatically on that continent, prompting critics of U.S. gun control efforts to issue new warnings of what life in America could be like if Congress ever bans firearms. After Australian lawmakers passed widespread gun bans, (law-abiding) gun owners were forced to surrender about 650,000 weapons, which were later slated for destruction, according to statistics from the Australian Sporting Shooters Association...Countrywide, homicides are up 3.2 percent; Assaults are up 8.6 percent; Amazingly, armed robberies have climbed nearly 45 percent; In the Australian state of Victoria, gun homicides have climbed 300 percent; In the 25 years before the gun bans, crime in Australia had been dropping steadily, now there has been a reported 'dramatic increase' in home burglaries and assaults on the elderly."
Breaking gun laws Despite threats of decade-long prison terms, thousands of Canadian gun-owners are flouting a Jan. 1, 2003, deadline to register their firearms. - Joel Miller, January 18, 2003 [WorldNetDaily.com]
Gun Control in Canada (from a Canadian born Gun Owner) This, my friends, is what the future holds for you. Do not let them remove your second amendment rights by interpretation. Realize, also, that Canada is no longer the country that you thought it was. Good luck in your fight."
Canadian Attitudes Toward Gun Control: The Real Story Confiscation is clearly a losing issue. C-68 has already infuriated about a half million Canadians and the numbers are growing. - G. A. Mauser, Ph.D. & H. Taylor Buckner, Ph.D., January 1997 [Mackenzie Institute]
Gun Control in Canada It is common to contrast the strict firearms legislation in Canada with the firearms laws in the United States and attribute the much lower homicide rate in Canada to this difference. However, Canada had a lower homicide rate before the introduction of the present firearms legislation. Further, not all Canadian provinces have lower homicide rates than the adjacent American states, even though all provinces have the same firearms laws. - Gary A. Mauser, September 1995 [Fraser Institute]
The New South Africa: Whites Viciously Massacred "...under South Africa's new gun control laws, these civilian farmers would no longer be allowed to carry anything larger than a small handgun to defend themselves from such attacks." - posted by robnoel, April 28, 2001 [FreeRepublic]
In South Africa, Gun-Control Debate With Racial Overtones "South Africa, a country rife with crime, is in the midst of a fierce debate over its gun laws. On paper, they are very strict, but enforcement is haphazard and sometimes corrupt...About 10,500 South Africans were killed with guns last year. Ms. Kirsten's group estimates that there are 7 million guns in the country. About 80,000 a year are stolen from private owners, and many vanish from army and police armories."
Frenchmen Need Guns – I Told You So "France is just another example in what will be a long line of European countries whose crime rates will outstrip ours as they continue to believe they can combat crime using only government cops." - Brad Edmonds, June 19, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
Switzerland and the gun Guns are deeply rooted within Swiss culture - but the gun crime rate is so low that statistics are not even kept. - September 27, 2001 [BBC News]
Repealing the DC Gun Ban It is unfortunate that people in the federal capital city have for nearly thirty years faced some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country. - Rep. Ron Paul, MD, October 4, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]
More Gun Control, Please! Why does Washington, D.C., a district whose laws make it illegal to buy, possess, transport or acquire a handgun, experience the highest per capita murder rates in the nation? - Larry Elder, October 24, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]
Better Them Than Us The people of Brazil, foolishly searching for security through disarmament, will provide us with another experiment from which we can learn and teach about the failure of gun control. - Scott McPherson, January 19, 2004 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]
The Failure of Gun Laws Restrictive firearm legislation has failed to reduce violent crime in Australia, Canada or Great Britain. Moreover, the policy of confiscating guns has been an expensive failure. Ironically, criminal violence has not decreased, but instead, continues to increase, notes Gary Mauser (Fraser Institute). - December 05, 2003 [NCPA]
Gun Ownership in Iraq I have twice seen the same film clip on CBS news: an Iraqi citizen buying what looks like a machine gun (Kalashnikov), and another citizen trying out a semi-automatic pistol’s slide action. Both times, the voice-over warned of Iraqis preparing to defend themselves. - Gary North, March 7, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]
Gun control worked in [blank], didn't it? Nowhere in the world have gun laws saved lives. The 'Gun Control' people know it and have tried to fake it instead. Below are listed some of their botched attempts at supporting their lie.
Gun Statistics--Why Ignore the last 7 years? Great Britain passed draconian gun control laws in 1997. Since then, violent crime (including GUN crime) has skyrocketed, at a rate that will cause the total number of crimes per capita to double in less than a decade. - posted by anonymous, April 7, 2000 [FreeMarket.Net Forum]
