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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 802038" data-attributes="member: 25159">Ask the citizens of the UK how the strict gun laws have affected them:&nbsp;&quot;Nearly five centuries of growing civility ended in 1954. Violent crime has been climbing ever since. Last December, London&#039;s Evening Standard reported that armed crime, with banned handguns the weapon of choice, was &quot;rocketing.&quot; In the two years following the 1997 handgun ban, the use of handguns in crime rose by 40 percent, and the upward trend has continued. From April to November 2001, the number of people robbed at gunpoint in London rose 53 percent.&quot;&nbsp;Read the full article here:&nbsp;<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2002/11/01/gun-controls-twisted-outcome" target="_blank">http://reason.com/archives/2002/11/01/gun-controls-twisted-outcome</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 802038, member: 25159"] [COLOR=blue]Ask the citizens of the UK how the strict gun laws have affected them:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] "Nearly five centuries of growing civility ended in 1954. Violent crime has been climbing ever since. Last December, London's [I]Evening Standard[/I] reported that armed crime, with banned handguns the weapon of choice, was "rocketing." In the two years following the 1997 handgun ban, the use of handguns in crime rose by 40 percent, and the upward trend has continued. From April to November 2001, the number of people robbed at gunpoint in London rose 53 percent." [COLOR=blue]Read the full article here:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [URL]http://reason.com/archives/2002/11/01/gun-controls-twisted-outcome[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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