This is what happens when governments try to ban guns

Telegraph UK ^ | 05/01/2003) | Mark Steyn

[Sir Gawain]

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[Roxymoron]

Of course all the criminals are the only ones to have guns. We can't have the law-abiding citizens being allowed to protect themselves against all the criminals with guns by having their own guns now, can we?

[Mulder]

Good article. Thanks for posting.

[Prodigal Son]

This is actually a fairly old one from Steyn but it is one of my favorites.

[Cicero]

I just sent this to a British in-law who thinks Americans are crazy to have a constitutional right to bear arms. He thinks all disputes should be settled with your fists. Maybe so, but it's not working in England very well any more. And the pubs aren't what they used to be, either, with hardly a free house left anywhere and the brewery chains running the show.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It's easier... just to go "total": blame everyone, ban everything.

Well said, old chap.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Great post!

[cpdiii]

To break into my house would require getting past an alarm system and my dog. By the above actions one has demonstrated ill and probably violent intent. In such a case I would use every effort and means I possess to kill the intruder.

[Dan from Michigan]

I thought Birmingham has always been rough.

I know Strathclyde, Scotland is really bad. 380,000 people, 82 murders(2000?2001?) That was worse than all Michigan cities outside of Flint and Detroit.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

In such a case I would use every effort and means I possess to kill the intruder.

If you do that in England you go to jail and the heirs of the perp get to sue you.

[Maelstrom]

WARNING:

This article appeared earlier...perhaps as early as last year.

Something fishy going on...you've been warned.

[gcruse]

Wow. I'm a big Steyn fan and read this whole article w/o realizing it was him. It's grim compared to his normal work.

[cpdiii]

TEXAS sir, TEXAS!!

[Djarum]

BTTT

[Tailback]

nancy-boy Canadians.

Man, is this guy perceptive or what?

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/711949/posts
Do Guns Save Lives?

-Empty-Barrel Gun Policies-A legacy of nonsense from Clinton, Blair, and the Left--

-A Problem With Guns (Long... but SOOOO good)--

Shooting More Holes in Gun Control

Gun Control Down Under

HCI Aussie Style (read it and weep-or laugh)

The Great Australian Gun Law CON!

British Gun Crime Soars

Gun Crimes Surge in London

More Guns on Street - Cops Fearing Increased Bloodshed (more Canadian gun control "success")

Through the Looking Glass and Back Again - From Anti-gunner to Firearms Instructor in Four Months

Swiss Gun Laws- and some rebuttal to HCI "spin"-- Thread II

Statistical Facts Gun-haters Run From

[Redbob]

I LOVE his writing!
This should be chiseled in granite somewhere:

"The monumentally useless British police, with greater manpower per capita on higher rates of pay and with far more lavish resources than the Americans, haven't had an original idea in decades, so they cling ever more fiercely to their core ideology: the best way to deal with criminals is to impose ever greater restrictions and inconveniences on the law-abiding."

[Rummyfan]

Ths is an old Steyn.... think it was written shortly after the New Year's shootings referenced in the article.

However, the points he makes are still very valid.

[Joe Brower]

Good read. And good insights into the political opportunism and social myopia of the "authorities", who ceaselessly utilize the actions of criminals to further their oppression of the law-abiding. Nothing good can be said about such a government, foreign or domestic.