[MadIvan]

Steyn, as per usual, nails it.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[facedown]

...Americans kill at about the same rate as nancy-boy Canadians.

Love this guy!

[AntiGuv]

Excellent commentary! I've been looking for something just like this.

[thinktwice]

Nothing worries corrupt officials more than arms in the hands of angry citizens.

[junta]

Yes it is about time someone mentioned the demograpic breakdown of violent crime. Perhaps in the near future we can logically address the causes of violence.

[Dog Gone]

Terribly politically incorrect, meaning that it's highly accurate.

The evidence is objective. It's out there. Those dumbass hicks in America with the bumper stickers reading When Guns Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Guns are far smarter than the sissies who run Commonwealth countries.

[Madame Dufarge]

When you disarm the citizenry, when you prosecute them for being so foolish as to believe they have a right to self-defence, when you issue warnings that they should "walk on by" if they happen to see a burglary or rape in progress, the main beneficiaries will obviously be the criminals.

Mind-boggling how the painfully obvious can be so relentlessly ignored.

It's as if some mass psychosis has seized huge segments of the populace.

[twntaipan]

Whew! Boy can Steyn make a point.

[Pokey78]

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

In case you haven't been pinged. If you have, then...nevermind. : )

[NewHampshireDuo]

In my part of New Hampshire, we're all armed to the hilt and any gangster who fancied holding up a gas station would be quickly ventilated by guys whose pick-ups are better equipped than most EU armies.

Heh Heh

[xm177e2]

Steyn is willing to say what needs to be said. He really is a square. That's why we love him!

[HHFi]

For years, I've been arguing with European acquaintances that their much-vaunted low crime rates had nothing to do with their socialist governments and gun control laws and everything to do with their homogeneous populations. It's always a lot easier to get people to behave when they have all been brought up in the same culture with the same standards of behavior, and don't have to deal with the tension of racism or competition from other immigrant cultures, as America does. That's why there are so few gang killings among the Norwegian bachelor farmers of Minnesota.

Now, after opening their borders for so long and letting in so many Jamaicans, Arabs, etc., many with criminal backgrounds, and punishing law-abiding people for defending themselves, their violent crime rates are skyrocketing, as anyone with a functioning brain could've predicted. They refuse to deal with this reality because it disproves their premise, so their solution is to lard on ever more socialism, political correctness and gun control laws. If they were doctors, they'd be like Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber, prescribing more and more bleedings for anemia patients.

[Rocko]

Bump.

[DeFault User]

And once that happens it's always easier to hassle the cranky farmer with the unlicensed shotgun than the Yardies with the Uzis.

Ain't it the truth?

And some folks think there's no difference in political parties, that gun laws don't affect them, that the police will protect them.

[The Iguana]

Thanks for the Steyn bump, Ivan.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[Puppage]

I'd just LOVE to see Donahue take this guy on...now THAT I'd watch. Why doesn't he get tv time?

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Meanwhile, America's traditionally high and England and Wales's traditionally low murder rates are remorselessly converging.

It's not just because America has more armed citizens. Our murder rate decline tracks well whereever we have ignored or defeated the ACLU and their fellow travelers by our increased use of the death penalty.

New York has just recorded the lowest murder rate since the 19th century.

Yep. New York just reinstituted the death penalty. (Well, on paper anyway. Give it a few years of non-application and NY's murder rate will turn up again. NY criminals will be fooled less long than most NY voters.)

[pierrem15]

The right of individual self-defence deters crime, constrains it, prevents it from spreading out of the drug-infested failed jurisdictions.

We're now acting to clean up failed states abroad. Why not failed jurisdictions at home (DC, Detroit, Chicago, LA, etc.)?

Place them under temporary fed jurisdiction, arrest the corrupt pols nad set up large numbers of penal batallions on the North Slope for the younger miscreants?

I know this modest proposal might start a few "German National Greeting" alerts, but is there a workable alternative?