Posted on 12/25/2012 8:11:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It's a strange omission: liberal pundits like CNN's Piers Morgan are fulminating over America's "gun culture" following Newtown's school massacre -- yet they seem blissfully ignorant about what happened after Britain's draconian handgun ban following a school massacre in Scotland, in 1996, eerily similar to Newtown's.
After the ban, more than 160,000 law-abiding citizens gave up their handguns. The idea was to stop gun violence. But ironically, the ban had the opposite effect: crime-related gun violence jumped a whopping 40 percent in the two years after the ban. And since then, gun crime has continued to soar at an alarming rate. Anti-gun liberals may be aghast, but as that old NRA bumper sticker stated: "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." One wonders how long before guns are used in another massacre in the United Kingdom; or perhaps next time it will be done by a madman carrying a can of gasoline.
Piers Morgan, an urbane native of England, surely knows what happened after Britain's gun ban. But like others anti-gun media elitists and politicians (whose children are defended by armed guards at upscale private schools) Morgan avoids discussions of the complexities and nuances of gun control and their impact on ordinary people -- that is, law-abiding gun owners. "You're an unbelievably stupid man, aren't you?" Morgan told Larry Pratt, director of Gun Owners of America, during a discussion about gun regulations that included proposed bans on large clips and military-style weapons like the AR-15 used by Newtown, Connecticut's shooter Adam Lanza. Now, an online petition demanding that the smug Brit be deported is drawing tens of thousands of signatures.
Morgan surely knows about Britain's failed effort to reduce gun violence - and how those efforts backfired. Even the lefty BBC took notice --
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Most Americans are pretty law abiding.
How law abiding will they be under a gun ban?
Well the fact is the Constitution gives us a right to own guns,so if we keep them in spite of a gun ban we will still be law-abiding and it is the people who passed the gun ban who will be breaking the law.
A bunch of Indians should throw Piers in the ocean.
Someone should ask this mutt if he thinks the children and staff at Sandy Hook and the children and staff of Dunblane would say yes to an armed guard.
Piers Morgan - A flexible container of vinegar and water.
Those who pass such a ban will be violators of civil rights, domestic enemies of the constution, enemies of freedom, traitors and enslavers.
Anyone who takes such an action and willfully violates their oath to uphold the constitution in such an offensive and tyrannical manner will have forfeit all of their rights as a citizen of this country.
The best most recent example of gun confiscation is Australia. Crime keeps increasing.
Just another one of the “inconvenient realities” that the radical left avoid like the plague which expose their real intent -— which is to disarm law abiding citizens while using whatever excuse and emotion to convince the mindless public that their purpose is otherwise.
No, there is no difference between Morgan and the other gun ban radicals. SOS. Morgan should evaluate the realities of his own country’s gun ban, plus that of Australia — look at what happened to the crime rates afterwards. And as a topper, compare the criminal gun death rate of the city of Chicago and compare that to the number of deaths by nutcase psychopaths as we recently experienced. More inconvenient reality.
According to no less an authority than the peer-reviewed Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, countries with stringent gun control laws have MUCH higher murder and suicide rates than those without.
WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE?, A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser, Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (pp. 649-694)*
"If you are surprised by [our] finding[s], so [are we]. [We] did not begin this research with any intent to “exonerate” handguns, but there it is — a negative finding, to be sure, but a negative finding is nevertheless a positive contribution. It directs us where not to aim public health resources."
The trick hoplophobes always use is to say that America has higher gun-murder rates than other countries, but a lot of those "murders" are criminals killed in the act of committing crimes. Compare absolute murder rates, and the result is "more guns, less murder."
I thought that Piers was being deported to face Yellow Journalism charges back where he came from.
I thought that Piers was being deported to face Yellow Journalism charges back where he came from.
Blimey Limey! Faggish Fop!
I think the second amendment recognizes the natural right to be armed, not so much gives us the right.
“I wonder if Morgan has ever read the Second Amendment ...”
Well, you can quit wondering. Piers also said they we, the people, were infringing on his 1st A rights by criticizing his idiocy.
Bless his heart, he wants attention. Any attention.
Piers Morgan was involved in numerous scandals involving lying and rigged stories in the UK. That is why he is in America. Of course that he was a proven lying sack of crap meant nothing to CNN where he fits right in...............
“A bunch of Indians should throw Piers in the ocean.”
“Honest, we trying to deport him...but forgot the boat...”
They don't give a damn about the crime rate.
They only want to disarm the public, and it's all about power and control.
More Hospitals, More Hospital Deaths
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/more-hospitals-more-hospital-deaths.html
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