The other night, Bob Costas addressed the nation on the issue of gun control in the wake of Jovan Belcher's murder of his girlfriend and subsequent suicide. Bob points out that it was obvious that if the gun had not been present, both Jovan and his girlfriend would be alive today because it would be impossible for Jovan - a linebacker from a professional football team - to kill his girlfriend. For example, OJ Simpson didn't have a gun so Nicole Brown Simpson is perfectly healthy today. Oh, wait, she isn't? Hmm.
The interesting thing about gun control is that it tends to increase gun violence. How can that be? Well, the criminals - who brazenly break the laws against guns - still have guns and need have little fear from law-abiding citizens. Why do the massacres happen on school campuses? Because they are gun-free zones, the ultimate goal of the gun control activist. By contrast, criminals tend not to rob gun stores and gun ranges where it is a certainty that there will be armed resistance. Given the option of robbing the bar where all the police hang out or the bar where all the gun control activists go, which is the shotgun-wielding thug more likely to choose?
New York has long been on the gun control bandwagon and has been so successful that knife murders are on the rise. Yes, NYC has so choked of the supply of guns that knife killings rose by 50% in 2008. See, you get rid of the guns and, like Bob says, nobody dies. In contrast to NYC, places that loosen gun regulations see a drop in violent crime. Florida and Texas both had murder rates above the national average but shortly after passing right-to-carry laws, the rate dropped. It's easy to be a criminal when you know the other guy is unarmed.
Here is an interesting website on the subject:
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