[pabianice]

Tea, anyone?

[dirtboy]

Ping for a fine Steyn...

[Sender]

...there are calls for the total ban to be made even more total: if the gangs refuse to obey the existing laws, we'll just pass more laws for them not to obey.

Well that just about says it all in one sentence.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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

As Rush always says, if you want to know what a Liberal will do in any given situation, just think of the most gutless alternative, and that's what they'll do.

[RKV]

"the police and politicians lapsed into their default position: it's your fault. We couldn't do anything about him, so we'll do something about you." ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC

[jimkress]

Excellent article! Gives a whole new meaning to "If you make guns illegal, only criminals will have guns"

[CCWoody]

So many good one liners: the best way to deal with criminals is to impose ever greater restrictions and inconveniences on the law-abiding.

[RogueIsland]

when you issue warnings that they should "walk on by" if they happen to see a burglary or rape in progress

Is that for real?

[wjcsux]

Gun control insanity bump.

[jimt]

Excellent post. Thanks !

[DoctorHydrocal]

The corpulent provocateur Michael Moore, in his film Bowling for Columbine, currently delighting British audiences, spends an entire feature-length documentary investigating the "culture" of American gun violence without mentioning that blacks, who make up 13 per cent of the population, account for over half the murders (and murder victims, too). Once you factor them out, Americans kill at about the same rate as nancy-boy Canadians.

Whoop! There it is.

[Cuttnhorse]

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.

Sounds like my Idaho!! Great Mark Steyn article, as always.

[Bedford Forrest]

"nancy-boy Canadians."

Roger that, Mark. A real bunch of puling, mincing sods in our Northern Economic Dependencies. Except Alberta. Step on board, Alberta and send the rest of those wankers off to Meech Lake.