“After Britain?s government banned guns in 1997, the rate of violent crime more than doubled. ?A recent study of all the countries of western Europe has found that in 2001 Britain had the worst record for killings, violence and burglary, and its citizens had one of the highest risks in the industrialized world of becoming victims of crime,? historian Joyce Lee Malcolm wrote for the fall 2004 issue of Journal on Firearms & Public Policy.”
But, but, but... Michael Moore didn’t mention this in his movie “Bowling for Columbine,” so it can’t be true. According to Moore, the US has so much violence (vs. Canada, for example) because there are so many guns. According to Moore, if we would just get rid of the guns, we wouldn’t have so much violence. Is he wrong?? /sarc
I wonder...will Moore have anything to say about the school shooting in Germany today? Germany has very strict gun control laws, yet one kid managed to rack up several more kills than Columbine with only a 9mm Beretta.