Posted on 04/29/2002 5:06:56 AM PDT by RichardEdward
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
MADRID -- On paper, Western Europe seems like a gun control utopia. The laws governing firearms are tougher than those in the United States. Citizens are less likely to be armed. And the number of gun crimes is substantially lower.
On the street, though, there are signs of ominous change.
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As crime has dropped in the United States in recent years, it has worsened in much of Europe,despitebecause of generous welfare states designed to prevent U.S.-style inequality and social conflict.
John Lott: Stand up and take a bow! Congratulations, your hypothesis now has iron-clad proof: "More Guns, Less Crime"
This is obviously due to the "patchwork quilt" of uneven gun laws around the world, and we need to "harmonize" them. Fault especially lies with American gun show loopholes, who supply virtually every illegal weapon in Europe and to terrorists, says an important minister's friend's sister. /idiocy
Oh,yeah! No leftist anti-US bias there! Everybody knows the US invented inequality and social conflict,and the founders of this country came here to get away from the equality and social justice of Europe. I'm thinking this one statement tells more about the thught process of the author than they intended,or maybe even knew themselves.
Outrageous -- flat-out nuts.
Just imagine the journalist-birdbrain's IQ responsible for penning that drivel.
~A pea-sized monster the LASlimes got themselves there, alright.
"Everybody knows the US invented inequality and social conflict,and the founders of this country came here to get away from the equality and social justice of Europe."
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...that about sums it all up nicely.
Of course the early reports of this tragedgy noted the severe gun control laws of Germany had not been effective since Germany was "awash" in "illegal" guns brought in from Eastern Europe. Now it seems the guy had a permit and the guns were "legal". Of course, that will only prove that gun control laws will work if severe enough.
The American left is headquarted in the NorthEast,and they have to be VERY careful about making charges like this. The majority of the guns going to the terrorists in the IRA have come from the NE part of this country,and they don't want to step on their own toes.
MARK A SITY
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Drug dealers will always have guns -- if all else fails, they can smuggle them in disguised as a routine cocaine shipment
Typical, it doesn't work, worse it actually causes or allows harm to the innocent. We're used to it though, so we'll keep doing it.
"Judging from the tension in the low-income housing projects of the urban periphery, it's a good thing that gun laws are harsh. Youth gangs don't hesitate to attack police stations in Marseille and Paris. But they generally use rocks, Molotov cocktails or cars set ablaze and converted into rolling missiles, not firearms.
The lack of guns helps explain Europe's remarkably low homicide statistics, experts say. While Los Angeles County recorded about 1,000 homicides in 2000, there was about the same number in all of France. Spain registered 1,200 homicides last year. London suffered only 148 shootings that resulted in death or grievous injury last year."
Note that guns are tightly regulated in LA county. If a comparison of Europe's tight laws is supposed to be being made to a place in America that is "awash" in legal guns, then Vermont would have made a better place for comparison, inasmuch as people there aren't forced to beg for a carry permit. Comparing a place in America with tight gun laws with places in Europe with tight gun laws can not possibly be used as an argument that lax gun laws are the problem.
His proof was already ironclad, prior to the events and statistics described in the article.
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