How is it possible that British violent crime, including gun crime has gone up...violent crime in total 24%, and gun crime by 10% in London and other major cities....
While gun murder in the U.S. has gone down 49% since the 1990s, and all violent crime went down 75% since the 1990s...as more Americans bought guns and now over 15 million Americans carry guns legally,,,?.
Well lets see- the UK firearm homicide rate is almost non-existent- compared to the United States.
I am glad that the fire arm homicide rate in the United States is coming down. Imagine how low it would be if we had as few guns in circulation as the UK?
And of course you hide the truth.....the truth is Britain had a low gun crime and gun homicide rate compared to the U.S. long before they began enacting their gun control laws....right? Do you understand that point?
So....they had a low gun crime, gun murder rate before 1996...then they had a massacre in Dunblane, Scotland.....and banned and confiscated their guns.....in order to cut down on gun crime and gun violence...right? Do you understand that point?
So...by doing that, in order for your point to be remotely relevant.....by banning and confiscating the guns of their law abiding citizens, they would have had to experience a decline in their gun crime and gun murder rate....because they banned and confiscated guns...right? Are you following that?
So what actually happened.....after they banned and confiscated the guns of law abiding British citizens...the ones not using their guns for gun crime and gun murder?
Their gun crime rate spiked...that means that after they banned and confiscated guns.....they went from a low gun crime and gun murder rate....to a higher gun crime and gun murder rate...for years after the 1996 ban. Do you understand that?
Then, after years of increased gun crime and gun murder......their levels of gun crime and gun murder went back down to the same level they were at before they banned and confiscated guns from law abiding British citizens who did not use their guns for gun crime and gun murder....do you understand that point?
So....and this is the important part..........their gun control laws that they implemented to reduce their gun crime and their gun murder........didn't change their gun murder or gun violence rate.
Do you understand what that means?
It means that guns in the hands of normal people were not creating gun murder or gun crime....
And so...as we have seen, criminals in Britain still got guns.....they are now getting more guns....after they banned and confiscated guns...
And after the ban..in 2016....their gun crime rate went up 42% in London...their capitol city.....
So their low gun murder rate has nothing to do with guns.....it has everything to do with British criminals, who have guns, not using those guns to commit murder...
But they are getting guns....lots of guns...and now they are starting to use them for gun crime....why?
Because their social welfare system is creating young, aggressive, sociopaths.....young males raised by teenage mothers without adult men as fathers....and they have no empathy for others....and they are beginning to act on that lack of empathy....they are using their illegal guns to shoot each other......
So you may point to the low gun murder rate right now...but it isn't going to stay low......