Please rest assured that we're not all like that. I'm an Englishman (and a Texan by marriage) and I'm here to tell you that it wasn't only knifing and other violent crime that increased.dewayneward wrote:A guy I work with here is from the UK (accent and all) and after I got tired of listening to him drone on an on about how great the UK is and how gun crime is down, I let him in on that little fact (that knifing and other violent crime went through the roof). His response "that is just lies told by the NRA".
He told me that he hates guns and cant stand to be around them, etc. If he only knew......
In the 10 years immediately following the UK's handgun ban, gun crime actually doubled. So that worked well, then. Not.