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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
They were used successfully in the past in both Australia and the UK after gun-toting crazies massacred innocents.
Mr Mephisto
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Ummm, WRONG. They were not gun buybacks, they were gun CONFISCATIONS. Are you advocating confiscation of guns in America?
Have you seen what has happened in England and Wales afterwards? Did the raw numbers OR rates of gun crime decrease? No matter how you look at it, gun crime in the UK has skyrocketed since the ban, Scopes be damned.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews...l&siteid=50143
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1440764.stm
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/14919.shtml
this last one is fascinating, given that ALL handguns were confiscated by the Government in 1997, IIRC.