Posted on 07/30/2009 10:33:24 AM PDT by Sasparilla
Many American gun owners are not surprised that the Irish have joined Britain and Australia in the gun ban swamp.
Irish gun wielding criminals must be celebrating because In legislation designed to stop the emergence of what the Irish Justice Minister called a "gun culture" in Ireland, Dermot Ahern has signed a law banning all handguns in Ireland.
It also begins a requirement for background medical checks and standards for the safe keeping of other guns in the home for all firearms licence applicants.
It also makes it an crime to brandish a realistic imitation or toy firearm in public.
Now the Irish have the opportunity to see their own rise in violent assaultive crimes, robbery, and other handgun crimes by the thugs that ostensibly will be prevented from owning handguns.
Not to worry for the criminals. They already have their handguns and like elsewhere where these laws have passed, they will not visit the local police station to drop them off in compliance with the new law...
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I’m sure the terrorists like the IRA are shaking in their boots at the thought of legal guns not being allowed
ARF
It will be interisting to see what the crime stats are in the next few years.
Were gun-toting crooks a large voting bloc for whoever is in charge of Ireland?
And I thought this was gonna be a joke thread.
Sadness.
I don’t really agree with the hypothesis that crime will rise ‘because of the gun ban’ because a mugger or a rapist can be pretty sure that whoever he selects as a victim will not be walking around tooled up. This wasn’t even the case in Britain in the 1950s, when gun legislation in the UK was even less restrictive than it is today in the US.
The problems with rising crime etc would undoubtably decline if there was a widespread culture of citizens carrying guns as a matter of routine, but this has not been the case in the UK/Ireland for a long time, not since gentlemen stopped wandering around with a sword strapped to their waste everywhere they went...
I looked around for some more information, and I found this article which has more detail: Deasy achieves hand gun ban.
“...crime to brandish a realistic imitation or toy firearm in public.”
There will be a lot of kids locked up in Ireland soon...
Don’t worry, be happy :)
Meanwhile crooks and terrorists are licking their chops, because now they’ll be able to walk into any house and just take whatever they want, and the normal person will not be able to defend himself and his family and property.
The leftist politicians are happy, because they love that sort of “income redistribution.”
It sucks for the Irish People, but we are helped here by having another “living laboratory” to point at whenever new gun laws are proposed in the US.
She’s come a long way from her days as a mugging decoy on the streets of Boston. Just over two years into her new job, Kathleen O’Toole speaks with Colin Murphy, in a two-part interview, about her role as
Chief Inspector of the Garda Inspectorate
In the week of this interview, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern proposed a ban on handguns as one response to gangland gun crime. Kathleen O’Toole would “absolutely” support such a ban.
“I have always been anti-handgun. I’ve had to respond to those horrific calls of teenagers shot and killed or injured in inner-city neighbourhoods. I think any major city police chief in the US would be.”
She is, she says, a “civil libertarian”, and on issues such as guns and surveillance – also in the news recently as a result of new measures being proposed for the use of evidence in court obtained through those means – she believes a balance must be struck between civil liberties and crime fighting. But in the US, on the guns issue, that balance has been missed.
She cautions about relying on the argument that most gun-owners are law-abiding. “A lot of guns that are used in the commission of crime in the States – and I suspect that that trend will develop here, if there aren’t controls – are guns that are stolen from their rightful owners.”
The troubles in Northern Ireland Ended! see previous comment.
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