Food for thought …
US:
+ 2009: gun sales up 25% over 2008
+ Murder rate: 46 year low
UK
+ Guns banned in 1997
+ Since 1997, crime rate up 87%
We don’t want to make a direct conclusion, “but we can at least say this: There is no evidence from the U.S. experience this decade that higher rates of gun ownership lead to more crime, nor from the British experience this decade that fewer guns translate to less crime.” (San Francisco Examiner)
A resident of the UK commented, “UK citizens are conditioned to surrender, rather than fight back.”
In the meantime, Hillary Clinton & Obama are promoting a UN effort to simply eliminate handguns from our society. Never mind the 2nd amendment or US sovereignty. More “One World” crap from two people who have no respect whatsoever for our Constitution.
Moe Lane
PG DeFreese
Victoria Coates
Daniel Horowitz
Dan Spencer
If only we could carry them freely...
adamwatkins (Diary) Saturday, January 23rd at 12:05AM EST (link)…the murder and robbery rates would go down even further. As long as we have “gun free zones” (such as college campuses, schools, bars, trains, airplanes, and the Communist Republics of Illinois and Wisconsin), we will not be as safe as we otherwise could be. I highly resent the policies of liberals that tell me “I don’t care that you have no criminal record and that you passed a background investigation and a training course and that you have a concealed handgun license, I don’t trust you not to be a murdering robbing heathen in this place or that place, etc.” Gun rights are better than they used to be, but until the day comes when I am not assumed to be a violent criminal just for carrying protection, we aren’t there yet. P.S.: Yes, I said it: airplanes. Let’s see someone try and light a fuse on an airplane with a potentially armed citizenry on board. I don’t want to be a cowboy; I just want more options when facing imminent death. We can’t count on the terrorists to be incompetent (Christmas 2009 Detroit) EVERY time.