BELLEVUE, Wash., – -(Ammoland.com)- The shocking report that London’s murder rate has surpassed the rate in New York City underscores the dirty little secret of gun control, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today, since most of the London slayings were stabbings.
“Over the past 19 days,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “there have been 15 London homicides, according to the Daily Mail. Last year, London recorded 80 fatal stabbings, which only proves that guns aren’t the problem, criminals are. And when violent criminals don’t have guns, they resort to other lethal weapons.”
Gottlieb noted that even in the United States, fatal stabbings outnumber murders with rifles and shotguns in any given year, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report. This fact calls into question attempts to ban so-called “assault weapons” while nobody utters a peep about “knife control.”
“Our friends in the United Kingdom suffer under horribly restrictive gun laws, yet the murders in London reveal something anti-gunners everywhere refuse to acknowledge,” Gottlieb observed. “While the British have campaigned for people to turn in knives, it’s clear from the body count in their capitol city that their outlaws are just like American criminals. They do not obey the laws against guns, knives or murder and mayhem.
“And that,” he stressed, “is the dirty little secret of gun control. Criminals always find a way to violate the law.
“The time has come for authorities on both sides of the Atlantic to admit that their decades-old campaigns of citizen disarmament have created an environment where criminals thrive,” he added. “Sadly, the people responsible for these restrictions, which penalize honest citizens, are just too cowardly to admit their failures. Instead, they hide behind the empty promises of new restrictions which won’t work any better than the old restrictions, and that’s a problem in both countries.”
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
Tom Webster wrote: “Whilst I would love to believe this statement, unfortunately it is untrue. Gun crime is also up in London. Crime in general is up in London. The reality of UK gun crime statistics since the beginning of the 20th Century is that successive gun control activity has had no impact, plus or minus, on violent crime and homicides. If you study a graph of homicides against time you would not be able to identify when the first Firearms Act came into force” The facts you cite, SUPPORT MY POSITION (E. Bryan Hoover’s position), not, repeat NOT, your… Read more »
There is a dirty little secrete in London…
Gun control laws have made it safe for criminals to use clubs, knives and illegal guns, to murder the law abiding, and disarmed, citizens of London.
The numbers do not lie — the gun grabbers proudly pronounce that gun murders are down – while they make it safe for criminals with clubs and knives and illegal guns to murder – Murders from all causes are way, way up — according to the gun grabbers own numbers.
Isn’t that typical, this Frank Hutt comes here from another country and says we need to change our ways but the country he comes from is worse off than ours. I am so sick of these Englishmen coming here and voicing their negative opinions at us. We don’t have to support a Queen and family that does nothing but lives like a Queen. Keep in mind that London has a Muslim mayor so maybe N.Y. needs one. If you can’t get guns then use knives (they are easier to make), hammers, spears, bombs, vehicles or whatever else your distorted little… Read more »
I lived on Sydney st in London from 1995-2009. I worked as a private tutor and substitute teacher . Gun control has created an enormous demand for handguns in Great Britain. Many smuggled from N.Spain and former Eastern Block nations. The truth is the British government could care less. In the USA it looks like an overthrow of government by the military along with populist mid America.Young Gentile Americans along with Muslims must work together …!
this is bullshit
But GUN murders are down! Winner!
See: Progressivism: Goals.
Wankers.