Piers Morgan says he is an expert on guns because his brother is an expert on guns

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Obama's Kenyan half-brother launches political career: News-africareview.com

 

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Morgan's borderline nuts.. like COMPLETELY nuts.

No, he is not nuts at all. He grew up in an environment that supports gun control, and it has actually worked out pretty well in the UK. That does not mean it would work out well in the US, but that also does not mean he cannot have an opinion that might differ from yours, whether he is right, wrong, or somewhere in between.

Apparently, you do not keep up with the news. Recent demonstrations in the UK indicate that the people are not happy at all.

In the first link, please see the paragraph beginning with "In Britain..."

The great gun control fallacy | Thomas Sowell | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk


In Britain, such people have been so successful that legal gun ownership has been reduced almost to the vanishing point, while even most convicted felons in Britain are not put behind bars. The crime rate, including the rate of crimes committed with guns, is far higher in Britain now than it was back in the days when there were few restrictions on Britons buying firearms. In 1954, there were only a dozen armed robberies in London but, by the 1990s – after decades of ever tightening gun ownership restrictions – there were more than a hundred times as many armed robberies.



Gun Control in the UK?Still a Matter for Debate

US readers may be surprised to learn than gun control is still a matter for debate on this side of the Atlantic. The Gun Control Network notes that the gun homicide rate in England and Wales is 40 times smaller than the rate in the USA.2 Since it is so much easier to buy a firearm in the USA than it currently is in the UK, the conclusion might seem obvious. It is not that simple. There has been an increase in gun crime in Britain. That can in part be explained away by the use of airguns and imitation weapons, issues covered by the Violent Crime Reduction Bill that has yet to reach the statute book. However, any increase, whatever its origin, can be seized upon as evidence for the need to back-track on the UK's current very restrictive firearms legislation—and that has happened. Australia, like the UK, tightened up the law in the late 1990s, and in both countries the stimulus for the legislation was a gun massacre, and in both countries the argument that gun crime has subsequently increased can be heard.1,3,4


Gun control did not reduce gun crimes in the UK and it will not reduce gun crimes in the US.

 

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Morgan's borderline nuts.. like COMPLETELY nuts.

No, he is not nuts at all. He grew up in an environment that supports gun control, and it has actually worked out pretty well in the UK. That does not mean it would work out well in the US, but that also does not mean he cannot have an opinion that might differ from yours, whether he is right, wrong, or somewhere in between.

Apparently, you do not keep up with the news. Recent demonstrations in the UK indicate that the people are not happy at all.

In the first link, please see the paragraph beginning with "In Britain..."

The great gun control fallacy | Thomas Sowell | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk


In Britain, such people have been so successful that legal gun ownership has been reduced almost to the vanishing point, while even most convicted felons in Britain are not put behind bars. The crime rate, including the rate of crimes committed with guns, is far higher in Britain now than it was back in the days when there were few restrictions on Britons buying firearms. In 1954, there were only a dozen armed robberies in London but, by the 1990s – after decades of ever tightening gun ownership restrictions – there were more than a hundred times as many armed robberies.



Gun Control in the UK?Still a Matter for Debate

US readers may be surprised to learn than gun control is still a matter for debate on this side of the Atlantic. The Gun Control Network notes that the gun homicide rate in England and Wales is 40 times smaller than the rate in the USA.2 Since it is so much easier to buy a firearm in the USA than it currently is in the UK, the conclusion might seem obvious. It is not that simple. There has been an increase in gun crime in Britain. That can in part be explained away by the use of airguns and imitation weapons, issues covered by the Violent Crime Reduction Bill that has yet to reach the statute book. However, any increase, whatever its origin, can be seized upon as evidence for the need to back-track on the UK's current very restrictive firearms legislation—and that has happened. Australia, like the UK, tightened up the law in the late 1990s, and in both countries the stimulus for the legislation was a gun massacre, and in both countries the argument that gun crime has subsequently increased can be heard.1,3,4


Gun control did not reduce gun crimes in the UK and it will not reduce gun crimes in the US.

Some Brits may not like it, but the fact is that the murder rate in the US is four times the rate of the UK, whether by gun or any means. You can show me statistics of gun related deaths increasing in the UK, but their homicide rate is only 25% of ours. That's the bottom line.

I'm not making an argument for or against gun control, because there is more to the debate than just whether gun control would reduce crime and murder rates. But from a logical perspective, you should think of it this way, and I know there will be a big split on this also, but do you think our homicide rate would increase or decrease if every single adult was carrying a concealed weapon in the US? Put some thought into this one.