I decided that given the topic of this blog, it would be fitting to start off our posts with a bang here at RIKBA.com. So today we will examine what happens when government decides to disarm it’s people – and the people do nothing to stop it. Many advocates of gun control look to England as an example of how brilliant their own ill-conceived plan might be. Unfortunately, these same people take only a single page from a single day to compare misleading statistics from across the pond against our statistics here in the US. <\/p>\n
In other words, they don’t look at the whole picture. <\/p>\n
What is the whole picture, you may ask? Certainly a question worth asking, and here is the answer: when analyzing the effects of gun control in a society, one must look at many factors, such as:
\n-The number of violent crimes,
\n-The number crimes committed by the item in question (in this case guns),
\n-The number of crimes PREVENTED by the item in question, (never used as a factor by gun control crowds)
\n-The value of the alternatives to the item in question (i.e. knife, bat, scream for help, police, etc)
\n-The ability of government to control the item in question from the legal market, as well as the illegal, or underground market,
\n-The realistic ability of government to replace the protections provided by the item in question,
\n-And finally, probably most importantly, compare all of the above with unbiased statistics from both BEFORE and AFTER the implementation of said restrictions. <\/p>\n
In the case of gun control, this test has always failed to show that gun control works in reducing crime. In fact, it shows exactly otherwise. I will follow up this post with some examples of how Britain’s crime has skyrocketed since the implementation of a total gun ban. In the meantime, watch the clips below to see what citizens are saying now that their rights have been stripped from them. <\/p>\n