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Column: Gun Control Around the World: Lessons to Learn

journal on Firearms and Public Policy
Volume # 14 Articles

Gun Control Around the World: Lessons to Learn
Dr. Gary A. Mauser

http://www.saf.org/JFPP14ch5.htm

Gary Mauser is a professor on the faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. This paper is adapted from the Sixth Annual Civitas Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia held April 26 though 28, 2002.

[geekWithA.45]

It's nice to see some studies that arrive @ pro RKBA conclusions from someone other than Lott!

[7.62FullMetalJacket]

Gun laws may not reduce violent crime, but crime causes gun laws. The loser in this drama is individual freedom. The winner is bureaucracy. Since it is a truism that only law abiding citizens obey gun laws, or any other kind of law for that matter, it is an illusion that further tinkering with the law will protect the public. No law, no matter how restrictive it is, can protect us from people who decide to commit violent crimes. There have always been criminals, and there have always been deranged people. Murder has been illegal for hundreds if not thousands of years. The truth is we live in a dangerous world, and the government can't completely protect us.

Duh! What liberals fail to see is that absolute control unbalance the equation to the criminal.

[Standing Wolf]

...it is an illusion that further tinkering with the law will protect the public.

Yep. I live in a city whose unposted speed limit was reduced to 25 miles per hour because people speed.