A good doctor will stop using a treatment that doesn’t work so why is it that our politicians with gun control on the brain insist that because it’s proven ineffective in the past, we need more gun control?
In 1988 the British Parliament enacted extreme firearms legislation, causing firearms ownership to drop over 20 percent over the following five years.
During that time gun crime more then doubled but the British House of Commons reacted with the perfect solution: more gun control on law abiding citizens. Those measures included regulating legal sports and activities that may foster a gun culture, totally missing their target, criminal use of firearms.
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In 1997 the Australian government enacted stringent control on private ownership of firearms, banning pump action and semi automatic long guns.
The number of firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens dropped but guess what? The use of guns by violent criminals increased dramatically.
In South Africa, legislation placed severe restrictions on law-abiding citizens who used firearms responsibly, forcing them to surrender all but one for self defence. Again the crime rate soared.
It was a sad day when C-391 was defeated. Maybe if we lived in a democratic country, our MPs would actually vote according to the wishes of the people.
Ross Hingston,Landis, Sask.
