RE: I don’t like Mondays
what a load biased crap!!!
On the other hand, the author
>doesn’t seem too objective either, judging by the title of
>his book …
“Mr. Lott is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of ‘More Guns, Less Crime’
(University of Chicago Press, 2000). “
hmm i agree there about his objectivity
ok i’ve stayed pretty much out of this one but this shite:
>In 1996, Britain banned handguns. The ban was so tight that
>even shooters training for the Olympics were forced to
>travel to other countries to practice. In the six years
>since the ban, gun crimes have risen by an astounding 40%.
>Britain now leads the U.S. by a wide margin in robberies and
>aggravated assaults. Although murder and rape rates are
>still lower than in the U.S., the difference is shrinking
>quickly. Dave Rogers, vice chairman of the Metropolitan
>Police Federation, said that despite the ban, “the
>underground supply of guns does not seem to have dried up at
>all.”
>
>And both Britain and Australia have been thought to be ideal
>places for gun control because they are surrounded by water,
>making gun smuggling relatively difficult. By contrast
>smuggling is much easier on the Continent or within the U.S.
so how does me walking round with a gun help ???
the main reason for the rise in gun crime is the fall of the soviet union and comunsism making more guns (and other stuff) avalible for peanuts. after the albians had some problems back in like 1998, you could by an ak for less than a dollar.
>Gun-control advocates frequently ignore another inconvenient
>fact: Many countries with high homicide rates have gun bans.
>It is hard to think of a much more draconian police state
>than the former Soviet Union, with a ban on guns that dated
>back to the communist revolution. Yet newly released data
>show that from 1976 to 1985 the U.S.S.R.’s homicide rate was
>between 21% and 41% higher than that of the U.S.
>Many French politicians complained during their presidential
>election that the shooting in Paris meant “it’s getting like
>in America, and we don’t want to see that here.” Americans
>may draw a different lesson from the evidence, and hope that
>they don’t become more like the Europeans.
what a total load of horseshit
rabie :9
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