"DGDevin" wrote in message
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Stuart wrote:
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Lew Hodgett wrote:
It would certainly have an affect on ammunition availability as well
as the hand gun violence here in L/A where on an average week, there
will be 6-8 hand gun killings.

And in the UK, where strict gun laws are in place, you'd be hard
pressed to count that many in a month throughout the entire country.

I read something years ago about a former head of Scotland Yard testifying
before a Parliamentary committee. When asked what effect Britain's strict
gun laws had on criminals getting their hands on guns, he said the law had
little or no impact, that any serious criminal in the country could get
any kind of gun he wanted within 24 hours, he even mentioned the prices
paid for weapons. Britain's gun laws might prevent shootings by outraged
husbands or drunks or whoever simply by making firearms hard to come by
for the average person. But anyone who thinks criminal gangs will have
trouble getting guns should note that drug trafficers are able to bring
narcotics into the country by the ton. Since the War on Drugs has been a
trillion-dollar failure, one has to suspect that banning handguns would be
just as effective as banning recreational drugs has been.

The incidence of home invasions sky rocketed too... victim disarmament at
it's finest. It's also a social experiment that no researcher would be
allowed to conduct on ethical grounds.