Well, they’re at it again. Idiot foreigners ignorant of the fact that MORE guns NOT less would have resulted in more survivors of the Virginia Tech shootings. OK, take all of the guns you can away from the public and you’re going to leave them in criminals hands. Or are you also ignorant enough to say that the criminals will turn them in for a movie ticket or some other hare-brained buy back scheme? Hmmm?
Here are some pathetic and pacifistic quotes from overseas…
“We took action to limit the availability of guns and we showed a national resolve that the gun culture that is such a negative in the United States would never become a negative in our country,” said Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who staked his political career on promoting tough gun laws after a gunman went on one of the world’s deadliest killing sprees 11 years ago.
What this dude doesn’t tell you is that Australia (a place in which I lived at one time) already had tough gun control laws on the books when this guy in Tasmania went on the rampage.
But even in Germany, where gun-control laws are strict, a teenager in 2002 shot and killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two students and a police officer at a high school. The shooter was a gun club member licensed to own weapons. The attack led Germany to raise the age for owning recreational firearms from 18 to 21.
Hmmm, gun control laws are strict in Germany too. Still, a teenager was able to off 16 people there…
“This incident reflects the problem of gun control in America,” Yuan Peng, an American studies expert in China, was quoted as saying by state-run China Daily.
Right, Chinese telling us where we went wrong on gun control. I have a two word response “Tiananmen Square”.
The next time you listen to these opportunists just refer to these stats from a WND article from 2001:
WND reported that, although lawmakers in Australia responsible for passing the ban promised a safer country, the nation’s crime statistics tell a different story:
- Countrywide, homicides are up 3.2 percent.
- Assaults are up 8.6 percent.
- Amazingly, armed robberies have climbed nearly 45 percent.
- In the Australian state of Victoria, gun homicides have climbed 300 percent.
- In the 25 years before the gun bans, crime in Australia had been dropping steadily.
- There has been a reported “dramatic increase” in home burglaries and assaults on the elderly.
Australian press accounts report that the half a million-plus figure of weapons turned in to authorities only represents a tiny fraction of the guns believed to be in the country.
According to one report, in March 1997 the number of privately-held firearms in Australia numbered around 10 million. “In the State of Queensland,” for example, the report said only “80,000 guns have been seized out of a total of approximately 3 million, a tiny fraction.”
And, said the report, 15 percent of the more than half a million guns collected came from licensed gun dealers.
So, looks like the Aussie stats justifies my opening point the law-abiding people left defenseless to the criminals that STILL have guns! Go look up the British stats yourself.
Check out some more stats, yes, from the NRA. But, you can’t argue with facts - no matter where they’re from. The same Liberal psyche that reasons that the Drug War is a failure says that a round-up of guns is possible. If you can’t stop all the drugs then how are you going to stop all the guns?