And now for a short instructional video

On the difference between full auto assault rifles and civilian semi-autos:

Another Brit turns sour on gun control

In a letter to the British Home Secretary, MP Kate Hoey writes: "As I am sure your officials will tell you, there was absolutely no evidence to suggest that by banning legally-licensed cartridge pistols and closing legally-operating shooting clubs, we would all sleep safer in our beds. Yet today there are more hand guns on our streets than 10 years ago."

The UK was a classic gun control confiscation scheme: first they introduced mandatory gun licensing, and then later they used that registry to round up all the guns. Of course the criminals didn't bother to register their weapons, so after the confiscation crime has soared. The UK now has some of the worst crime in Europe, because their citizens are defenseless. As I've pointed out in previous posts, their citizens are now doing the only sane thing: they're rearming themselves illegally.

Why? Because the right to bear arms is a universal right of man, as understood by our Founding Fathers, who were products of the Enlightenment. It would behoove us as a nation to spend more time reading the works of the Enlightenment in our colleges. But then I'm biased, because I think a classical education is best.

More on Crime in the UK

In the UK they've got it all: cameras, ID cards, DNA Databases, and the strictest gun controls in Europe.

What did this give them?

One of the worst crime rates in Europe, apparently.

Britain has one of the worst crime rates in Europe, a report said yesterday.

It is the most burgled country in Europe, has the highest level of assaults and above average rates of car theft, robbery and pickpocketing. Only Ireland has a worse record.

Estonia, Holland and Denmark make up the rest of the EU's five ''high-crime" nations. All had rates more than 30 per cent higher than the average. Spain, Hungary, Portugal and Finland had the lowest rates.
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The report follows one of the most comprehensive law and order surveys in the EU. More than 40,000 people aged over 16 were questioned in 18 countries about their recent experiences of crime.

Factors associated with high levels of crime included urbanisation, a large number of young people in the population and a binge-drinking culture.

Risks of being assaulted were highest in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Denmark and lowest in Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Spain and France.

The Gun Show Loophole

So, here is a quick flash animation with a quick explanation about the "gun show loophole" and some statistics at the end.