“I am pro-gun, I've got a lot of ‘em. And what I tell folks is because of the Patriot Act we damn well better keep ‘em."

Jon Tester (D) Montanda

Maybe they'll want knife control next

John Lott pointed out in his blog that:

In the United States, 5.9 percent of Americans were victims of knife attacks over five years, while for the UK it was 12.2 percent.

So they banned handguns in the UK, and that didn't stop gun crime. It didn't even stop violent crime, as the criminals just arm themselves with knives now if they can't get smuggled weapons. The end result is that now the UK is the knife crime capital of the world:

The tragedy occurred as a new study of 28 countries found 13% of violent crime victims in England and Wales had been stabbed or threatened with a knife. Scotland came close behind. Only Spain and Portugal had worse figures, while countries such as Italy, the United States, Estonia and Mexico all had less knife crime.

Amazing. The sad thing is that their solution is to just introduce knife control.

Disarming honest law abiding citizens will not disarm law breaking criminals who know how to buy weapons on the black market. What more proof do they need?