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Criminals are NEVER deterred by the prospect of their victims possibly being armed. All it does it encourage them to arm themselves in an even more deadly way.
Gun crime increased in the UK after the gun control laws were passed? Hardly surprising when you consider that merely being in possession of a firearm was then classified as a gun crime and that it was an issue that was much more seriously and doggedly policed than before.
Robberies increased? So what? Robbers are not deterred by the prospect of the owners of the house they are robbing being armed. Hell, most robbers do their utmost to make sure that no-one is there to disturb them when they go about their robbing, so whether that no-one is armed or not doeso't affect their actions in the slightest. The truth of the matter is that those statistics reflect a period of time when the economy was going into recession and drug abuse was on the increase.
The amount of muggings increased? See above. The fact that carrying a concealed weapon in public was always illegal means that the gun control laws had no bearing on this statistic anyway.
Firearms murders increased? True, but did the writers of the above article even bother to explain why? Of course not, it would detract from their argument. The amount of gang related violence has been on the increase for a while now. Personally, I have nothing against gang members killing each other - they're welcome to it. The incidences of firearm related domestic violence has plummetted though. And, of course, the Dunblane incident has not been repeated since.
To be quite honest, statistics can always be manipulated any way you want them, as the writers of the original article have obviously done in order to suit their argument. And shame on them for doing so.
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