Well, no, not really shocking at all. Anyone with a lick of common sense could have told them this would be the case. But now we have a ten-year study, published in the British Journal of Criminology, that says so.
HALF a billion dollars spent buying back hundreds of thousands of guns after the Port Arthur massacre had no effect on the homicide rate, says a study published in an influential British journal.and
Politicians had assumed tighter gun laws would cut off the supply of guns to would-be criminals and that homicide rates would fall as a result, the study said. But more than 90 per cent of firearms used to commit homicide were not registered, their users were not licensed and they had been unaffected by the firearms agreement.Let's mail a copy of this study to the Mayor of Boston.
Ah well, no worry. I'm sure the politicians will admit their mistake and immediately roll-back the ludicrous gun laws, then apologize for being so aggregiously stupid and wasting taxpayer money.
3 comments:
Excellent post.
Cross posted this over at theGunBlog.
I think what will probably happen is that the government will say that they didn't take strong enough measures, or they would have made a bigger difference. In other words, if it doesn't work, keep doing it again and again, only harder.
BobG -
Unfortunately I completely agree with you. Tragically, our elected officials seem unable to actually process information, especially in regards to public policy, or perhaps they don't even care to.
"What, that gasoline didn't put the fire out? Use more!"
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