Gun Control Is Deadly

I like to talk about Chicago, where gun control is tight, while criminals have no trouble getting their guns, and the gun crime rate is the highest in the nation. But Chicago is not the worst example of the fallacy of anti-gun laws. Every large city with tight anti-gun laws has correspondingly high gun crime statistics. But that’s not the whole story: In Mexico, where the anti-gun laws are really draconian, and where only ONE PERCENT of Mexicans can legally buy guns, the gun crime rate has DOUBLED since those laws were written and imposed upon the people. This is but one more instance that proves my point. But the anti-gun fools, as usual, are not listening. They have a “tin ear” to facts that disprove their ignorant theories. They see these things, and then go on to make more and more stupid anti-gun laws they SAY reduces gun crime, while they do NOT. They only INCREASE it by making “easy targets” of the law-abiding, who DO obey their laws, while criminals (who obey NO laws) predictably do not. What drives them, I don’t know. I only know their ideas are worthless, and deadly to those who obey them, while they make it easier for the lawless to victimize the law-abiding. (John Lott)