quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: You counted them?
Besides, how does that prove that the laws aren't successful in reducing the number of guns.
No, I took the Home Office's word for it. Maybe that was a mistake.
The ban was successful in reducing the number of guns. But of course, if numbers were what mattered, then Norway would have the same crime rates as the US.
What the ban was most successful at was reducing the number of legally owned guns. To zilch. Highly effective.
But since the idea was to reduce the number of guns used in CRIME, and knowing that the vast majority of guns used in crime are owned illegally, and knowing that the number of guns owned illegally gas increased, it would seem that the law, while VERY effective at reducing guns that were not likely to be used in crime, actually increased the probability that guns would be used in crime.
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: I'm going to hazard a guess that murder is pretty illegal in the US, and yet, guess what, it still seems to happen. Crazy.
Yes, but unlike The Case of the British Guns (sounds like an Arthur Conan Doyle mystery title), it cannot be reasonably suggested that the laws against murder actually caused the murder rate to go up.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: I'm going to hazard a guess that murder is pretty illegal in the US, and yet, guess what, it still seems to happen. Crazy.
Yes, but unlike The Case of the British Guns (sounds like an Arthur Conan Doyle mystery title), it cannot be reasonably suggested that the laws against murder actually caused the murder rate to go up.
Guns were banned, and the number of gun related crimes went up. But they were increasing anyway, so how are you proving that banning guns didn't stop a more drastic increase?
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When you start to get unnervingly strong feelings of deja vu about previous deeply troubling feelings of deja vu, you know you've been over a subject too often.
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Fun stuff, trying to predict alternate histories...
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i guess greek poeple can't figure the diff between casino-on-net and pong...
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