Britain’s Gun-Control Folly
by Scott McPherson December 16, 2005
In response, allow me to quote at length from “Gun Control in England: The Tarnished Gold Standard,” written by historian Joyce Lee Malcolm and published in the fall 2004 issue of Journal on Firearms & Public Policy:
[Between 1997 and 2003] crimes with [banned firearms] have more than doubled…. In 2002, for the fourth consecutive year, gun crime in England and Wales rose — by 35 percent for all firearms, and by a whopping 46 percent for the banned handguns. Nearly 10,000 firearms offenses were committed…. Clearly since the ban criminals have not found it difficult to get guns and the balance has not shifted in the interest of public safety….
In the four years from 1997 to 2001 the rate of violent crime more than doubled. The UK murder rate for 2002 was the highest for a century….
A recent study of all the countries of western Europe has found that in 2001 Britain had the worst record for killings, violence and burglary, and its citizens had one of the highest risks in the industrialized world of becoming victims of crime….
And here’s the icing on the cake: “[A] United Nations study of eighteen industrialized countries, including the United States, published in 2002 … found England and Wales at the top of the Western world’s crime league, with the worst record for ‘very serious’ offenses.” [Emphasis added]
And all this while crime in the United States, including violent crime, has been steadily falling. The “Wild West” seems to be 3,000 miles to our east.
No it won't. It's easy to go around carrying a blade. Fashioning a club or a mace is even easier. People still don't carry them because it is illegal. All you need is harsh sentencing for people caught going about armed, and using such weapons to result in severe punishment. 3d printing a firearm that is worth anything is still far in the future, and you still need bullets.
3D Printing functional firearms and bullets is in the very near future when 3D printers become as common as classic printers are Today. There are already free files and models to 3D Print it. This will liberalize and proliferate weapons in every country and people can manufacture and assemble it at home bypassing any laws.
Gun regulations only disarm people who follow the law. Criminals never follow the law and will use and sell weapons no matter the law. In countries with strict gun regulations it's still relatively easy to buy it as well. Just like how criminalizing drugs has never stopped people from using it. It increased supply via the black market.
It's a natural right for people to defend their life, liberty and property from others who want to violate it by force.
"If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you’re very Pro-Gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous…) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small, political elite and their minions."
- Stefan Molyneux