Gun Prohibition Does Not Work - New Article

[paolo]

good read... rare that this is reported in MSM.

http://www.examiner.com/article/a-lesson-for-gun-prohibitionists-prohibition-empowers-criminals

[GoatLovin]

Easy on the common sense, please.

[RedFord150]

Any fool should know that Prohibition of Alchohol in 1920 was the birth of organized crime in the US;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States

Tell us again what kind of results you get when you ban something.

[CBruce]

Until the UK or Australlia descends into a lawless hellscape of violent crime and murder, this argument isn't going to hold any sway with people. Because Mexico doesn't count. Why? Because someone arbitrarily decided it doesn't count. It is not a "developed" nation, which as far as I can tell means any nation with a higher homicide rate than the US. Which, I believe includes:

• Honduras
• Venezuela
• El Salvador
• Ivory Coast
• Belize
• Jamaica
• U.S. Virgin Islands
• Guatemala
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Zambia
• Bahamas
• Uganda
• Malawi
• Lesotho
• South Africa
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Congo
• Colombia
• Central African Republic
• Puerto Rico
• Ethiopia
• Saint Lucia
• Dominican Republic
• Tanzania
• Sudan
• Mexico
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Guinea
• Dominica
• Brazil
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Panama
• Equatorial Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Kenya
• Kyrgyzstan
• Cameroon
• Montserrat
• Greenland
• Angola
• Guyana
• Ecuador
• Burkina Faso
• Eritrea
• Namibia
• Rwanda
• Chad
• Ghana
• North Korea
• Benin
• Sierra Leone
• Mauritania
• Botswana
• Zimbabwe
• Gabon
• French Guiana
• Papua New Guinea
• Swaziland
• Nicaragua
• Bermuda
• Comoros
• Nigeria
• Cape Verde
• Grenada
• Paraguay
• Barbados
• Togo
• Gambia
• Peru
• Myanmar
• Liberia
• Costa Rica
• Nauru
• Russia
• Bolivia
• Kazakhstan
• Senegal
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• Mongolia
• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Seychelles
• Madagascar
• Indonesia
• Mali
• Pakistan
• Moldova
• Kiribati
• Guadeloupe
• Haiti
• Timor-Leste
• Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Lithuania
• Uruguay
• Argentina
• Philippines
• Ukraine
• Estonia
• Cuba
• Belarus

None of these countries count. They have more murders either because they have fewer firearm regulations or, if they do have stricter gun laws than the US, it's because they're not "developed".

[Dano3467]

Cbruce : That's quite a laundry list there...

[H K corporate assassin]

True.

[Sunday]

Gun control does work and it works well, as it gets guns out of the hands of the citizens and makes them subjects. Registration always leads to confiscation.

[AK all day]

Tsgged

[SonofWWIIDI]

Gun control does work and it works well, as it gets guns out of the hands of the citizens and makes them subjects. Registration always leads to confiscation.

^^^This.

It's not about wether it takes guns out if the hands of criminals, its's about turning honest, law abiding citizens into subjects.

[omgwtfbbq]

None of these countries count. They have more murders either because they have fewer firearm regulations or, if they do have stricter gun laws than the US, it's because they're not "developed".

Of course, why would they want to admit reality is contrary to their belief system when they can conveniently ignore the issue altogether?

Tsgged

Tere Hanges

[Dooligan]

...funny that two nuclear powers aren't considered "developed"

[Massan]

So what they're saying is that they're racist as they are discriminating against these countries because they are "undeveloped"...?

See, we can play that game also.

[Victor Cachat]

So, the pot growers and smugglers will have to switch to smuggling something else?
Like guns?
Into California?

[paolo]

With Leland Yee behind bars (hopefully) a gun running vacuum will have been created. I'm sure it will be filled by Narco-Gangs.

[chris]

it's about control plain and simple.