ktrout wrote:Well, maybe those laws just haven't done a damned bit of good, which I think is just as bad. Taking away freedoms without any real net benefit while costing taxpayer dollars in enforcement, lost opportunities (for those who break impotent laws), and the cost of the lost freedom itself doesn't make any sense to me.
And your evidence is? A 22% drop in 7 years in gun crime (pace Caliban, who hasn't yet come back with an explanation) seems pretty good to me. I don't see any great outcry here against lost freedom in that respect. I do hear plenty of Americans telling us we should be scandalised and angry. Perhaps you could try to get your head round the bizarre idea that the freedom to carry weapons isn't one that many people here consider of any importance at all. It simply isn't an issue for us.
Oh, and "that article" was just a data blog, where they collate the facts related to some current issue in the news, so people can see for themselves. How can data on gun crime in the US be propaganda when a gun crime (and a horrendous one at that) in the US is what we're talking about?