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Originally Posted by host
One breakthrough that helped New York City to deter illegal firearms posession and to enforce the strictest gun control laws in the U.S., resulting in less crminal shooting incidents, was:
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Your quotes were a reasonably nimble dodge of my question.
Firstly, your own quotes clearly state that it was not additional RESTRICTIONS that created the improvement you cite; it was increased ENFORCEMENT of existing laws, which is what the NRA has preached for decades. However, it's encouraging that law enforcement is finally going after guns in the hands of criminals, instead of taking them away from law-abiding citizens.
Secondly, I said "crime," not "gun crime." One need only look to the upsurge of crime in England and Australia to see the result of taking firearms away from the aforementioned law-abiding citizens.