Laws and enforcement of the laws are two different things. Mrs. Lanza was a gun enthusiast. She probably bought the guns for self protection. But look at how that turned out. She was killed by the guns she thought would protect her and unleashed carnage upon babies. Look at the stats from countries with the least amount of guns and the homicide rate.
That's like saying the countries with the least number of cars have a low automobile death rate. But let's look at Switzerland for instance.....
In Switzerland, every male between the age of 20 and 30 has to serve either in the military or militia, after their service ends they get to keep their assault rife in their homes. Switzerland has 45.7 guns per every 100 residents, which is only behind the United States, Serbia and Yemen. The entire country of Switzerland only had 53 homicides last year, we had more than that just here in Jackson, MS.
The reason why our crime rate is so high is because of the drug problem we have in this country. Over 85% of inmates in our system are there because of drug related crimes. Just look at the inner city homicide rate in just the black community. We are killing each other over drugs/drug related conflict.
The reason why other countries with less guns have lower homicide rates is because their drug problem is not as dire as ours is, period!
Another example of how gun control's affects can be seen in Australia. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent. Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns! While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.
There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns.
The sad thing is, homicidal nuts will always be among us, if they don't have guns, then they will use fertalizer like Timothy McVey did, or boxcutters and airplanes like the 911 terrorists did.
