The UK has a complete ban on private ownership of handguns, and severe restrictions on long guns. Many gun control advocates have tried to attribute the lower murder rate in that country, as compared with the USA, to the gun restrictions. This is a classic case of data mining: Only using those data points that support their thesis and ignoring evidence to the contrary. For example, Finland and Switzerland have much higher per capita gun ownership than the UK, and yet have much lower murder rates. Brazil has almost no legal private ownership of firearms, yet they have amuch higher murder rate than the USA.
And now we read that banning guns doesn't stop murders. It just changes the type of weapons:
Gordon Brown declared tonight that new anti-knife crime measures will be announced next week after four men were stabbed to death in separate attacks across London in just 24 hours.
The Prime Minister said the latest spate of murders was “shocking and tragic” a few hours after the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police issued a rare appeal for calm in the capital.
One thing you can count on from the left. They'll never let the facts get in their way.
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