want to lower crime rates- right to carry, when Flordia made it easier for people to get permits to carry consealed weapons anti-gun activists cried out `were going to have people killing eachother in the streets. and the streets are going to run red with blood`.... well that same year Flordia`s homicide rate dropped by half... it was the largest drop in history due to one law
If the crime statistics are viewed carfully you will learn that the states that don`t have the right to carry laws accutally have higher homicide rates then the ones that do
On the other side (Bans)
when England and Austraila banned handguns the crime rate did not drop... acctually arrmed robbries, B&E`s and agravated assaults skyrockted... reaching a all time high. (around the same year that the ban came into affect)
not to sure if it is Switserland or Sweeden (can`t rember now)but when the Police chief was interviewed about crime rates a forigen reporter asked him how many B&E they have a year, he replied `what are B&E`s.. probally because everybody has a gun in this country there isn`t a B&E problem...
When I was in school my professor (who was an ex toronto cop) and I had many heated debates about gun laws... but after I handed my essay on gun control I was able to change her mind (from the mindset that ONLY the Police should have handguns) a small victory I guess
lets take the gun registration act... a 2 billion dollar wast of time and money, it does absolutly NOTHING. first they told us that it was going to cost less then a million. but they keep pumping money into it... well now they know where a the responsible gun owners are. congadulations Liberals!!! you found all the people who are NOT going to commit a crime with a gun. Toronto Police is the largest police service in Canada with a total budget of under 1 billion a year. I have an idea, insteat of pumping money into a usless registration in an attempt to lower gun crime, hire more police officers to help lower ALL crime.
I guess the politicians believe that the crack dealer is going to turn in his gun because there is a ban in effect... what a joke!
This is just an attempt to gain support (votes) from a bunch of ignorant people who actually believe that a ban will lower crime rates even though it is proven that it does the opposite.
Sorry for ranting but this just ets me all worked up.