Advocates of 'reasonable' gun control laws don't want any firearms at all WashTimesOpEd
New York and New Jersey cover their states with gun-free zones to the point of making concealed carry impractical. Hawaii’s Legislature is now proposing to charge permit holders $1,000 in fees. None of that is reasonable. Nor is it reasonable when President Biden keeps talking about banning all semi-automatic guns, which account for about 85% of handguns sold.
Ms. Giffords’ aide pointed to Australia, where “gun sales were outlawed after a mass shooting and existing weapons were purchased by the government.” Ms. Giffords agreed that this was an example for the United States to follow. Besides, we shouldn’t just be looking at before-and-after averages of gun deaths in Australia. Firearm homicides and suicides had been falling for 15 years prior to the buyback. With these rates falling over the whole period, you could pick any year, and the average gun homicide and suicide rates after that year would be down compared with the average before it.
Gun control advocates like to note that there has been no mass public shooting in Australia since the buyback. But lots of countries with even stricter gun control regulations have had very different experiences. Properly done, statistics don’t involve simply picking out a country that happens to show what they want it to show.
Gun control advocates will tell you that Washington and Chicago weren’t fair tests. They will point out that criminals could still get guns in Virginia or Maryland, Illinois or Indiana. While that might explain why murder rates didn’t fall as promised, it doesn’t explain why murder and violent crime rates went up. After all, criminals could get these same guns before the ban.
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