If all guns were banned I think the first thing you will see is a drastic underground market and the rise of crime organizations smuggling guns into the country just like drugs. I also think you turn hundreds of thousands if not millions of otherwise law abiding citizens into criminals because many Americans will not give up their guns or seek guns on the black market. You give up the legal gun trade for the illegal gun trade but guns will still be out there.
In order to find out how gun laws affect crime the non-pragmatist would take a look in places where strict gun laws exist to find the results.
Before the Washington DC gun ban went into effect gun crime was already dropping, after the ban the murder rate rose.
John Lott speaking on the Heller vs. D.C. case stated, “The DC brief specifically points to Great Britain's handgun ban in January 1997. But what wasn't mentioned in the brief was the fact that the number of deaths and injuries from gun crime in England and Wales increased 340 percent in the seven years from 1998 to 2005.”
In 1996, Australia outlawed semi-automatic rifles and many pump action shotguns and other semi-automatic weapons. As of 2000, the Australian government confiscated and destroyed about 660,000 privately owned firearms. However between 1996-1998 armed robberies rose 73 percent, assaults rose 16 percent, and unlawful entries rose 8 percent. Murders also rose slightly. -- "Guns down under," Reason, Australia, p. 10, 10/1/00
Germany has some of the strictest gun laws in Europe and like Washington D.C. a gun ready for defensive use in the home is outlawed. Despite this the annual number of firearm-related murders throughout Germany rose 76% between 1992 to 1995. --- Library of Congress, p. 69.
Today we here of a mass shooting in Germany:
WINNENDEN, Germany – A 17-year-old wielding a Beretta 9 mm pistol burst into classrooms at his former high school Wednesday and gunned down students — some of whom died with their pencils still in hand — in a rampage that ended with 15 dead before he took his own life, authorities said.
What information can be extracted from this? Gun control simply doesn’t work.
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You have made some interesting points here. The most significant being, one doesn't need to look far to find the negative causality of gun prohibition. Consider the make my day law and other legislation that allows one to use deadly force to stop an intruder in their home, I have always contended that any perpetrater willing to risk his life on a home invasion is a very dangerous individual. If you remove the gun deterrant in the above scenario, we become a nation of victims waiting for any thug, rogue individual, or government, entity to help themselves to our property and our lives.
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