Despite Gun Bans, Violent Crime in UK Continues
Gun control advocates love to point to the UK as a great example of gun laws. Okay, fine. Let’s take a look shall we?
The London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee noted that in the 12 months leading up to October, 2017, there was a 16 percent increase from 2016 and a 44 percent increase from 2014 of criminal offenses involving guns. What? Wait. Did I say an increase of offenses involving guns you ask? Why yes. Yes I did.
As anyone with any logic at all could have predicted, the UK’s gun control laws have only disarmed the law abiding citizens. Banning guns didn’t work. Violent crime is still rampant. In fact, stabbings are up. According to The Sun, at least 46 people have been fatally stabbed in London alone during the first six months of 2018, and between January and April of this year, there have been nearly 1,300 stabbings in the city. So, in typical British fashion, now they are coming after knives.
Let’s look at a couple of quotes that have been provided on this subject.
“Every kitchen contains lethal knives which are potential murder weapons. Why do we need 8-inch or 10-inch kitchen knives with points?” – Retiring Crown Court Judge Nic Madge.
“No excuses. There is never a reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law.” – London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
You see, instead of looking at and addressing the underlying causes of crimes and criminal culture, British officials blame the tool instead of the criminal. So, in their ultimate wisdom, they have called for a total ban, or at least restrictions, on knife possession. This action would be funny if it weren’t so serious.
The numbers don’t lie. In the U.S., the cities of Chicago, Detroit, Washington D.C., Baltimore, St. Louis and New Orleans have some of the highest homicide numbers in the nation. Interestingly, they also have some of the most strict gun control laws. With the inclusion of those cities, the U.S. ranks as the third highest rate of homicide in the world. If you remove those cities from the equation, the U.S. drops to fourth from the bottom in the world. Think about that. If you removed the homicide rates of the cities with the most strict gun control laws, the U.S., as large as we are, drops to fourth from the bottom. Wow.
We in the U.S. are so blessed. We live in a choice land where we have the opportunity to be free. It should be very troubling to every person who lives here at some of the words being spoken by many Democrats today. For years they have promoted good-sounding phrases like “common sense gun laws” and “we want to prevent gun violence.” Now, many are getting bold enough to publicly state their real objectives, to get rid of the Bill of Rights and turn the U.S. into a socialist nation. Their goal is to get rid of the Second Amendment first, and it won’t stop there. We are witnessing attacks on freedom of expression and religion, attacks on due process of law, attacks on search and seizure and more.
Think about some of the photos we have seen from the different rallies across the nation in the past several months. They blame us, law-abiding gun owners who would sacrifice our own lives to protect another, for the criminal actions of non-NRA members. They chant things like “Hey hey ho ho the NRA has got to go.” Why? Because we stand in the way of their socialist agenda. It’s more than gun-rights we are protecting now. It’s our freedoms – all of them.
They will not stop. The day is practically here when our beloved Constitution hangs by a thread. This next election, and each and every one from this point forward, is an important fight for freedoms. According to a study this past February by The Economist, repeal of the Second Amendment is favored by 39 percent of Democrats. It doesn’t stop there. A whopping 82 percent favored banning all semi-automatics – not just AR-15s, all semi- automatics, and 44 percent wanted to ban all handguns.
Elections matter. If we start down a slippery slope of “common sense” gun control, our rights to protect ourselves from crime and even tyranny is gone. Look at places like Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba and China. Don’t let our children and grandchildren ask some day “how could you let this happen?” Study your history – then go vote. RDG 
