According the the BBC, in the three years since the UK's 1997 nearly total ban on personal firearm ownership, gun crime ROSE by 40%.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1440764.stm
I could go on and on and on with stories like this. Why? Because criminals don't care about laws. Ban whatever you want. Control whatever you want. Only the law abiding will follow it.
A armed person is a citizen. A disarmed person is a subject.
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