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Chicago handgun ban fails to stop shootings
August 5, 2009 | Tagged Chicago, Chicago gun law failure, Gun Law Failures | 1 Comment
On July 29th, CBS News, Chicago reported fifteen shootings in a city that has draconian gun and knife laws, including an “assault weapons” ban (actually a semi-automatic firearms ban) and a handgun ban. What can you say about those facts that wouldn’t be snarky? (See my post, “Poor Chicago-So corrupt-So like Mexico in its gun laws,” 12-19-08, tagged “Chicago.”)
Note to Chicago City Government Officials: criminals don’t obey laws. Gun makers are not flooding your city with firearms for the criminal market. More reasonable gun laws elsewhere are not the reason that you have a problem.
If Britain had the criminal elements and gang bangers that you have, Britain would have a worse situation with violence than they do now, after they passed their handgun ban and began collecting sharp-pointed kitchen knives. If gun control worked, both Chicago and Britain would be much safer than they are.
If Japan had Chicago’s gangsters, the Japanese would have a higher crime rate. Please read David Kopel’s book, The Samurai, the Mountie and the Cowboy, Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies? Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1992, pages 431 and 432. Consider Mr. Kopel’s conclusion that social controls and not gun control are the reasons for lower crime rates in these two island nations on opposite sides of the globe.
Baseball bats! That’s it! Baseball bats! A baseball bat murderer in Boulder Colorado was just sent to prison on DNA evidence. Maybe if you ban baseball bats, that will solve the Chicago violence problem.
You never know, bats might the answer. If we could only get them out of some of the Chicago belfreys…
Def Mech
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Unfortunately law makers just can’t grasp this simple concept. The bad guys will still get thier guns, regardless. Because they’re bad guys. They don’t obey laws. Not hard to understand. All the law does is keep people from being able to defend themselves.