Re: 232 Americans are murdered using guns for every Briton



Jake wrote:

The empirical evidence of the worlds more strict gun control
laws passed in the last 200 years has not shown a single success
in reducing crime or the supply of guns to criminals.

UK gun homicides have been falling since 2001.

Criminals are also finding it harder to get guns as evidenced by the conversion
of replicas, something that was previously unknown.

Graham

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