Results of Gun Bans....

[SigSense]

They asked for this and now they have it: The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S. | Mail Online

Now here's my common-sense question of the day; if we (USA) currently have a deterrent (private gun ownership), why would anyone want to INCREASE the rate of crime?

[Robert Richardson]

So we would be more dependent on the government to protect us.

[Kirk Freeman]

The UK numbers are acutally much worse.

The police have long been manipulating the numbers by checking the theft box for burglaries and robberies or simply not reporting crimes.

Several UK ex-pats have described the crime situation in the UK in mags such as The American Spectator. It is not pretty.

why would anyone want to INCREASE the rate of crime?

So the politicians and "experts" among the bureaucrats and policacrats can exert greater and greater control over your freedom and property.

[danielocean03]

Originally Posted by Kirk Freeman

So the politicians and "experts" among the bureaucrats and policacrats can exert greater and greater control over your freedom and property.

Bingo. Rep'd.

Those statistics make me nervous, I have to travel to the UK for training over two weeks next year. I'll be honest, I knew they had crime due to their gun control laws, but I had no idea it was that bad. Just goes to show, that an armed society is a polite society, and unarmed citizens are merely subjects.

[Garb]

I watched an interview of a man who lives in South Africa. He said one day he got robbed and when the robber left he called the police to report it. The police asked if the man had a gun and he said yes. The police said come down to the station to report it, we're to scared to come to your house. What is this world coming to?!?!

[danielocean03]

Originally Posted by Garb

I watched an interview of a man who lives in South Africa. He said one day he got robbed and when the robber left he called the police to report it. The police asked if the man had a gun and he said yes. The police said come down to the station to report it, we're to scared to come to your house. What is this world coming to?!?!

Wow, that's just plain crazy. Further proof of the hinderance to freedom gun control creates. At least his police seem ready to protect him.

[henktermaat]

Poor defenseless brits... Didn't they ban knives over there too?

[danielocean03]

Originally Posted by henktermaat

Poor defenseless brits... Didn't they ban knives over there too?

To the best of my knowledge they had at one point, I'm not sure if they currently are allowed or not. I know back in 2004 when my boss was in Britian, he wouldn't go into some building because he had a little pocket knife with him and he didn't want to have it confiscated.

[Slim7]

Last time I was in London they there were no gun signs on most public doors and in theaters my wife's purse was searched. Very vigilant. I didn't carry my knife as I didn't want it taken.

[SC_Shooter]

A friend's son was just there for two weeks (with a girlfriend from GB). He reported back that he hung out with a bunch of the guys in her old neighborhood and did "you know...guy stuff...just hanging out." He said they were all completely amazed that you could just "walk into a store and buy a gun" in America. He actually had people coming to him just to hear him say it again because they did not believe it.

Were all the Brits safer without guns in the hands of the public? Nope, not a bit. In fact, he said that EVERY SINGLE DAY while he was hanging out with the boys (while GF was off with the girls), they practiced knife fighting in the park. He said everyone he met had at least one knife if not more on them at all times and that they seemed to be very good during knife fighting practice.

I suppose if knives are outlawed, the boys will practice with rocks, then clubs.

The moral of the story is that in GB, you have to take a KNIFE to a KNIFE FIGHT.