Gun bans don't ever seem to work very well. The New Zealand gun buyback started in June 2019, and over the next six month 50,000 guns were turned in, less than a third of the 170,000 semi-automatic weapons estimated to be in circulation in New Zealand. The buyback and...
More Guns Less Crime
Remember all the experts who said that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s to relax gun control would lead to more murder?
When Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro promised to ease gun regulations and let more people own guns the media and the "experts" they talked to thought it would lead to more homicides/murders. Well, it didn't turn out that way. Things are still early and other factors...
Maj Toure talks to Congress about More Guns, Less Crime
Maj Toure talks about More Guns, Less Crime during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security for a hearing on “Community Responses to Gun Violence in our Cities.”(Maj Toure before the House Judiciary...
On Hannity’s TV show on Fox News, Evidence that More Guns, Less Crime
WELL WORTH WATCHING: Dr. John Lott and Robert Massi talked to Sean Hannity about the impact of gun control on crime rates. The first part of the segment examines John Lott's research on guns and crime. The one note that we would have added to Hannity's discussion on...
Updated: Murder and homicide rates before and after gun bans
Original post: Every place that has banned guns (either all guns or all handguns) has seen murder rates go up. You cannot point to one place where murder rates have fallen, whether it's Chicago or D.C. or even island nations such as England, Jamaica, or Ireland. For...
Hillary Clinton Lauding Australia and UK gun control laws
Here is a transcript of Hillary Clinton's comments on October 16, 2015 in Keene, New Hampshire. VOTER: Back to handguns. Recently, Australia managed to get away, or take away tens of thousands, millions of handguns. In one year, they were all gone. Can we do that? If...
Comparing murder rates and gun ownership across countries
Charles Blow in the New York Times last year made the very common argument: “America has the highest gun homicide rate, the highest number of guns per capita . . . .” In another story, the New York Times quotes researcher David Hemenway as claiming: “Generally, if...