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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux Nor did I advance such a claim. What I advanced is that gun control laws do not reduce gun violence. What you view as 'ancient' statistice I specifically chose as a benchmark. Gun control nuts make the argument that britain has gun control laws and very low gun deaths. therefore gun control works. This is shown to be false as gun deaths rose after the pistol act of 1903 and after the tighter restrictions later. Gun deaths are higher now than before gun control laws were passed - and there is now a 100 year history showing gun control laws did not do what gun control advocates say they did. Second - I am conversant with your study you quoted. The fact that they were doctors is of no bearing in the study. Their expertise as doctors doesn't come into play. You might as well query them on lunar phases of the moon, brazilian soccer, or man in the mooon marigolds. Thats study was utter tripe Do you have any figures to back the bolded claim up with ? Especially for after 1903. And I do mean offical UK figures. Just looking at stats from the last 20 years proves you are wrong. the high figure of 1996 was due to the Dunblane massacre, the hand gun ban was after that. I am unsure why people make stuff up which is so easily disproved. http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/region/192/rate_of_gun_homicide Below is a stat re long term murder rates by any means in the UK, down decade after decade until rising again from the 1970s until mid 1990s RESEARCH PAPER 99/111 14 VI. Crime: Indictable offences, homicides and Police numbers. Homicides per million population in England and Wales Year Homicides 1900 9.6 1910 8.1 1920 8.3 1930 7.5 1940 .. 1950 7.9 1955 6.3 1960 6.2 1965 6.8 1970 8.1 1975 10.3 1980 12.5 1985 12.5 1990 13.1 1995 14.5 1997 14.1 Source for the above list is section VI http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf Earlier you said that the law was passed in 1923 if my feeble colonial memory serves 1903 is before WWI
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Government ranges from a necessary evil to an intolerable one. Thomas Paine People don't believe they can defend themselves because they have guns, they have guns because they believe they can defend themselves.
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