"The firearms massacres that have periodically caused shock and horror around the world have been dwarfed by the Mumbai shootings, in which a handful of gunmen left some 500 people killed or wounded.
For anybody who still believed in it, the Mumbai shootings exposed the myth of “gun control”. India had some of the strictest firearms laws in the world, going back to the Indian Arms Act of 1878, by which Britain had sought to prevent a recurrence of the Indian Mutiny.
The guns used in last week’s Bombay massacre were all “prohibited weapons” under Indian law, just as they are in Britain. In this country we have seen the irrelevance of such bans (handgun crime, for instance, doubled here within five years of the prohibition of legal pistol ownership), but the largely drug-related nature of most extreme violence here has left most of us with a sheltered awareness of the threat. We have not yet faced a determined and broad-based attack"
Read all of it & believe it, because it is the unmitigated truth.
At every point where restrictions on the lawful possession of firearms has been increased, there has been a corresponding increase in their use by criminals - leading to yet MORE restrictions being imposed on law abiding citizens.
Whatever happened to the Bill of Rights & the basic tenets of Law laid down by Blackstone?
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Whatever happened to the Bill of Rights & the basic tenets of Law laid down by Blackstone?
Completely disregarded in the name of expedience.
More like deliberately ignored in the name of social control & the destruction of the individual as the smallest unit of a society.
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