MARK STEYN: This is what happens when governments try to ban guns

The Daily Telegraph ^ | January 5, 2003 | Mark Steyn

[Travis McGee]

Steyn nails it again!

[Travis McGee]

Your post #20 is worth an article and thread of its own! Bullseye!

[Rocko]

Bump.

[DeFault User]

And once that happens it's always easier to hassle the cranky farmer with the unlicensed shotgun than the Yardies with the Uzis.

Ain't it the truth?

And some folks think there's no difference in political parties, that gun laws don't affect them, that the police will protect them.

[The Iguana]

Thanks for the Steyn bump, Ivan.

[Free State Four]

prescribing more and more bleedings for anemia patients.

Amen and Amen!

[Inkie]

Did you forget all the daycare centers?

[Gritty]

BTTT

[RedWhiteBlue]

BUMP for a later read ......

[300winmag]

Worth repeating. Why do these socialists continue to fantasize that criminals will obey the law?

Deep down, the socialists don't believe it. But they believe that criminals preying on the innocent is a "small price to pay" for advancing socialism even more. Get those "little people" used to the idea that their lives and property aren't safe from the criminals. Then they won't object when the socialist government itself replaces the criminal as their major predator.

[metesky]

Steyn does it again!

Considering the inroads the Progressives have made on our written Constitution, imagine the horror of having an unwritten constitution as Great Britain does.

[Puppage]

I'd just LOVE to see Donahue take this guy on...now THAT I'd watch. Why doesn't he get tv time?

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Meanwhile, America's traditionally high and England and Wales's traditionally low murder rates are remorselessly converging.

It's not just because America has more armed citizens. Our murder rate decline tracks well whereever we have ignored or defeated the ACLU and their fellow travelers by our increased use of the death penalty.

New York has just recorded the lowest murder rate since the 19th century.

Yep. New York just reinstituted the death penalty. (Well, on paper anyway. Give it a few years of non-application and NY's murder rate will turn up again. NY criminals will be fooled less long than most NY voters.)

[pierrem15]

The right of individual self-defence deters crime, constrains it, prevents it from spreading out of the drug-infested failed jurisdictions.

We're now acting to clean up failed states abroad. Why not failed jurisdictions at home (DC, Detroit, Chicago, LA, etc.)?

Place them under temporary fed jurisdiction, arrest the corrupt pols nad set up large numbers of penal batallions on the North Slope for the younger miscreants?

I know this modest proposal might start a few "German National Greeting" alerts, but is there a workable alternative?

[pierrem15]

nad=and

I forgot to add: major kudos to MadIvan as usual!

[hattend]

Bookmarked and BTTT

[lepton]

and everything to do with their homogeneous populations.

Pretty much every ethnic demographic in the U.S. has a lower murder rate than their counterpart in their native land. Americans of British descent had about half to a third the murder rate of the British in Britain in the 70s and 80s.

[NorthernRight]

...Americans kill at about the same rate as nancy-boy Canadians.

And we nancy-boys are damn proud of that fact!

[doosee]

But in neither Britain nor Canada is it politically feasible to suggest that perhaps Jamaicans should be subjected to special immigration scrutiny.

I watched a documentary about 2 Jamaicans who raped and murdered a Canadian tourist in Bermuda a couple of years ago. They do get around, these wogs.

[dighton]

A terrific column, perhaps the best I've seen on this subject.