International Despite Confiscation, New Zealand Sees Most Gun Crime in a Decade

[sobo]

From NRA-ILA Grassroots Alert newsletter

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[OldTengu]

No...
You don't mean...
Criminals don't follow laws?
Shocking!

 

[titsonritz]

You mean like every other country that has done it, give it some time and knives will be the "new thing" that is killing people.

 

[The Heretic]

that "[t]he number of guns seized by police is also on the rise, up almost 50 percent on five years earlier at 1263 last year."

Well duh - outlaw guns and yeah, the rate of guns seized will go thru the roof initially. That doesn't really count if you are trying to gauge the effect a ban has on gun "crime" because much of the seizures would not have happened before the ban - unless you are going to go in and do an analysis on that.

Also, for any law, good or bad, you have to look at the impact over a number of years, not just a few - which would be what pro-gun people would be saying if the crimes with guns had gone down instead of up.

Not a very useful article IMO - unless you are just looking for a blurb to confirm your own viewpoint.

 

[titsonritz]

Rates of gun crimes and killings using guns at highest levels in a decade

 

[sobo]

Rates of gun crimes and killings using guns at highest levels in a decade

Thank you for the reinforcement.
Another article confirming what we all knew would happen.