My Co-Blogger at Chaos-In-Motion "geekwife" doesn't generally post on guns, but I get a kick when she does. This is a good one.
Anyone with a lick of common sense could have told them this would be the case. But now we have a ten-year study, published in the British Journal of Criminology, that says so.
HALF a billion dollars spent buying back hundreds of thousands of guns after the Port Arthur massacre had no effect on the homicide rate, says a study published in an influential British journal.
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Politicians had assumed tighter gun laws would cut off the supply of guns to would-be criminals and that homicide rates would fall as a result, the study said. But more than 90 per cent of firearms used to commit homicide were not registered, their users were not licensed and they had been unaffected by the firearms agreement.
Let's mail a copy of this study to the Mayor of Boston.
Ah well, no worry. I'm sure the politicians will admit their mistake and immediately roll-back the ludicrous gun laws, then apologize for being so aggregiously stupid and wasting taxpayer money.
Gun Buy Back
Of course, there have been several counter-stories about this study, most of which decry it as simply "gun lobby propaganda". But one dim bulb is actually saying that proof of the effectiveness of the buy back is the fact that there have been no more mass gun murders since it went into effect!
Heh
And Nancy Pelosi will attend the next Boomershoot. With her Barett .50 =)