Occasionally our cousins across the pond like to characterize we Yanks as a bunch of wild, reckless cowboys; guns after all are just so… well, uncivilized. But when it comes to violence, they’ve got the U.S. – and even their fellow Europeans – beat by a country kilometer ~
 

[UK Daily Mail: The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609.]

Gradually, over the course of the 20th century, virtually all handguns were banned in England and the nanny state was projecting a reduction in crime and greater safety for the British people. Instead, since 1997 when the Firearms Act was passed, just the opposite has occurred, as AWR Hawkins points out at Breitbart: How Gun Control Made England The ‘Most Violent Country In Europe’ ~

Gun control in Britain passed in stages, beginning just after World War I and continuing in a reactionary fashion with increasing strictness through the 1990s […]
 
And what has been the outcome of passing more laws in Britain to remedy the fact that other laws were ignored or broken? It has not been good.
 
In 2009, twelve years after the Firearms Act of 1997 was passed, Daily Mail Online reported that Britain was “the most violent country in Europe.” They also reported that Britain’s home figures showed “the UK [had] a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and South Africa.”

In his article, Hawkins explains how the gun-grabbing Leftists in the U.S. seem relentlessly determined to follow the same misguided path as their English counterparts by passing ever more restrictive legislation – consequences be damned.

Which begs the question; If a legal, responsible gun owner had not been on the scene at the Oklahoma food distribution center in Moore, Oklahoma last Friday, how many more employees at would be missing their heads today?!
 
Story from Fox News ~

(Alton Nolen) attacked Colleen Hufford, 54, stabbing her several times before severing her head. He also stabbed another woman, 43-year-old Traci Johnson, at the plant.
 
(Moore Police Department Sgt. Jeremy Lewis) said Mark Vaughan, the company’s chief operating officer and a reserve county deputy, shot Nolen as he was stabbing Johnson, who remains hospitalized in stable condition Friday.
 
“He’s a hero in this situation,” Lewis told the station. “It could have gotten a lot worse.”

 
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