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CarHauler — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:48:48 GMT

That is exactly right. As a matter of a fact, inmates all across the country were asked what their number one fear was when burglarizing homes. Was it being caught by the police? Not by a long shot. Their main fear was a confrontation or potential deadly encounter with a homeowner. My biggest fear is that we in the US become like our cousins across the pond. Over there where guns are outlawed, homeowners using firearms to defend their homes most often end up serving lengthy prison sentences. Most of the burglars over there never serve much if any time. There is a story of one burglar who had dozens of convictions for burglary, and he sued a homeowner who shot him.... [ More ]

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Rick G — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:38:26 GMT

Good info, CarHauler. A criminal's worst nightmare is an armed victim.

Original Blog Entry: Genocide following firearms confiscation, courtesy of JPFO.org

CarHauler — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:06:34 GMT

The Mother of All Stats

The Human Cost of Gun Control Ideas

The Genocide Chart JPFO.org 2002

Government Dates Targets Civilians Killed Gun Control Laws Features of Over-all Gun Control scheme

Ottoman Turkey 1915-1917 Armenians

(mostly Christians) 1-1.5 million Art. 166, Pen. Code, 1866

1911 Proclamation, 1915 Permits required Government list of owners

Ban on possession

Soviet Union 1929-1945 Political opponents;

farming communities 20 million Resolutions, 1918

Decree, July 12, 1920

Art. 59 182, Pen. code, 1926 Licensing of owners

Ban on possession

Severe penalties

Nazi Germany

Occupied Europe 1933-1945 Political opponents;

Jews; Gypsies;

critics; examples 20 million Law on Firearms Ammun., 1928

Weapon Law, March 18, 1938

Regulations against Jews, 1938 Registration Licensing

Stricter handgun laws

Ban on possession

China, Nationalist 1927-1949 Political opponents;

army conscripts; others 10 million Art. 205, Crim. Code, 1914

Art. 186-87, Crim. Code, 1935 Government permit system

Ban on private ownership

China, Red 1949-1952

1957-1960

1966-1976 Political opponents;

Rural populations

Enemies of the state 20-35 million Act of Feb. 20, 1951

Act of Oct. 22, 1957 Prison or death to counter-revolutionary criminals and anyone resisting any government program

Death penalty for supply guns to such criminals

Guatemala 1960-1981 Mayans other Indians;

political enemies 100,000-

200,000 Decree 36, Nov 25 Act of 1932

Decree 386, 1947

Decree 283, 1964 Register guns owners Licensing with high fees

Prohibit carrying guns

Bans on guns, sharp tools

Confiscation powers

Uganda 1971-1979 Christians

Political enemies 300,000 Firearms Ordinance, 1955

Firearms Act, 1970 Register all guns owners Licenses for transactions

Warrantless searches Confiscation powers

Cambodia

(Khmer Rouge) 1975-1979 Educated Persons;

Political enemies 2 million Art. 322-328, Penal Code

Royal Ordinance 55, 1938 Licenses for guns, owners, ammunition transactions

Photo ID with fingerprints

License inspected quarterly

Rwanda 1994 Tutsi people 800,000 Decree-Law No. 12, 1979 Register guns, owners, ammunition Owners must justify need Concealable guns illegal Confiscating powers

As you can see above, gun control has worked out so well in the past. Reason.com details how the gun ban in England has worked out. Here is an excerpt:

In the two years since Dan Rather was so roundly rebuked, violence in England has gotten markedly worse. Over the course of a few days in the summer of 2001, gun-toting men burst into an English court and freed two defendants; a shooting outside a London nightclub left five women and three men wounded; and two men were machine-gunned to death in a residential neighborhood of north London. And on New Year's Day this year a 19-year-old girl walking on a main street in east London was shot in the head by a thief who wanted her mobile phone. London police are now looking to New York City police for advice.

None of this was supposed to happen in the country whose stringent gun laws and 1997 ban on handguns have been hailed as the gold standard of gun control. For the better part of a century, British governments have pursued a strategy for domestic safety that a 1992 Economist article characterized as requiring a restraint on personal liberty that seems, in most civilised countries, essential to the happiness of others, a policy the magazine found at odds with America's Vigilante Values. The safety of English people has been staked on the thesis that fewer private guns means less crime. The government believes that any weapons in the hands of men and women, however law-abiding, pose a danger, and that disarming them lessens the chance that criminals will get or use weapons.

The results -- the toughest firearm restrictions of any democracy -- are credited by the world's gun control advocates with producing a low rate of violent crime. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell reflected this conventional wisdom when, in a 1988 speech to the American Bar Association, he attributed England's low rates of violent crime to the fact that private ownership of guns is strictly controlled.

In reality, the English approach has not re-duced violent crime. Instead it has left law-abiding citizens at the mercy of criminals who are confident that their victims have neither the means nor the legal right to resist them. Imitating this model would be a public safety disaster for the United States.

The illusion that the English government had protected its citizens by disarming them seemed credible because few realized the country had an astonishingly low level of armed crime even before guns were restricted. A government study for the years 1890-92, for example, found only three handgun homicides, an average of one a year, in a population of 30 million. In 1904 there were only four armed robberies in London, then the largest city in the world. A hundred years and many gun laws later, the BBC reported that England's firearms restrictions seem to have had little impact in the criminal underworld. Guns are virtually outlawed, and, as the old slogan predicted, only outlaws have guns. Worse, they are increasingly ready to use them.

Nearly five centuries of growing civility ended in 1954. Violent crime has been climbing ever since. Last December, London's Evening Standard reported that armed crime, with banned handguns the weapon of choice, was rocketing. In the two years following the 1997 handgun ban, the use of handguns in crime rose by 40 percent, and the upward trend has continued. From April to November 2001, the number of people robbed at gunpoint in London rose 53 percent.

Read more:http://reason.com/archives/2002/11/01/gun-controls-twisted-outcome

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