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Draconian Gun Control Does not Reduce Gun Numbers or Homicide Rates
Ammoland ^ | 14 December, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 12/21/2018 5:19:42 AM PST by marktwain

Draconian Gun Control Does not Reduce Gun Numbers or Homicide Rates

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- A large number of people who wish to disarm the population start with the premise “If there weren't any guns”, as if, with extreme restrictions on owning and using guns, guns will eventually go away.

Under extreme legal restrictions, the number of guns has increased.

I recall a prominent talk show host in southern California, wailing about confiscated guns being sold: “But if that happens, we will never be rid of guns!” he cried as if his wish were plausible.

Guns are a 700 to 100-year-old technology. Guns can, and are, being made in homes and small shops around the world that are beyond state control.

Firearms have had extreme legal restrictions imposed over most of the planet. The United States is exceptional, with the Second Amendment. Most governments allow only small numbers of their people to legally have firearms.

People under those governments actively resist those laws. In spite of a century and a half of stringent restrictions on gun ownership, the number of guns in private hands has risen significantly.

The Small Arms Survey has created the best estimates of the number of small arms in private hands in other countries of the world. The number increased from 650 million in 2006 to 857 million in 2017.

Most people will accept the Small Arms Survey as a legitimate source. They are based in Switzerland, and have, as  their mission:

Our main objective is to reduce the illicit proliferation of small arms


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; homemadeguns; smallarms
After 160 years of extreme guncontrol in India, there are 71 million guns in private hands. 61 million of them are illegal.
1 posted on 12/21/2018 5:19:42 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

That’s not the objective, but of course you know that too. 8^)


2 posted on 12/21/2018 5:25:03 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: marktwain

"...number of guns among citizens..."


Whatever number is bandied about...it is a lowball number...because patriots do not answer that question accurately.
My stock answer is always the same: “Guns are not permitted in this home.”


3 posted on 12/21/2018 5:28:06 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: marktwain

Gun control has never been about reducing homicide rates. It is always to make oppressing the citizens safer for the oppressors. If every third pre-World War II German raid on private homes was met with gunfire and deaths, how many people would have been saved from the gas chambers?

The French yellow vests are probably being very civilized as I’ll bet there are plenty of illegal guns in private hands. Any people who survived the Nazi occupation would be crazy to turn them in at the end of the war.


4 posted on 12/21/2018 5:30:13 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: marktwain

It’s not about saving lives. They really don’t care about the lives.


5 posted on 12/21/2018 5:35:31 AM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: dljordan

You are correct. But that is not the way they sell it or argue it.


6 posted on 12/21/2018 5:37:25 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

-Mahatma Gandhi


7 posted on 12/21/2018 5:38:18 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: marktwain

Saw on the nets; “Making good people defenseless does not make bad people harmless.”


8 posted on 12/21/2018 6:11:35 AM PST by umgud (Now)
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To: umgud
Full_Retard
9 posted on 12/21/2018 6:51:29 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: marktwain

Because it isn’t gun control. It seeks only to take guns from honest, non-violent citizens and deliberately to leave them in the hands of violent criminals so they can use the guns to take what is “rightfully” theirs from the evil “oppressors.”


10 posted on 12/21/2018 7:55:19 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: Gen.Blather; All
The French yellow vests are probably being very civilized as I’ll bet there are plenty of illegal guns in private hands. Any people who survived the Nazi occupation would be crazy to turn them in at the end of the war.

France has about 20 privately owned firearms per 100 people. Of those, two thirds are unregistered and thus, illegal.

11 posted on 12/21/2018 8:19:05 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; umgud; ...

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12 posted on 12/21/2018 12:35:31 PM PST by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: umgud

+1.


13 posted on 12/21/2018 12:50:37 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: marktwain

In California violent crimes where guns were used has gone UP.


14 posted on 12/21/2018 1:47:51 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
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To: SkyDancer

"...Damn! That woman just went full retard..."


Never go full retard.

15 posted on 12/21/2018 8:17:06 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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