In the line of fire over gun remarks


iconA Scottish bureaucrat is getting heat over some comments he made about guns. The mere suggestion that teaching children about guns might improve safety has resulted in gun freedom grabbers calling for his resignation, reports Scotsman.com. Adding a double whammy, he went on to say that keeping guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens is having no effect on criminals.

ANTI-GUN campaigners called for a senior Conservative MP to be sacked last night after he claimed that children should be taught how to handle firearms.

Patrick Mercer, the Tory home security spokesman, prompted widespread controversy during a fringe speech to party members last weekend when he also claimed the ban on handguns, introduced after the Dunblane massacre, had "no effect" on spiralling gun crime.

Admitting that gun control has had no effect on crime, something that even our own liberal CDC has admitted, is considered "fringe speech" in the liberal European press.

Personally, I would also disagree with Mercer. Gun control has had an effect on crime. Look at England, where crime is increasing so much that law enforcement officers no longer enforce trivial crime like burglary and assault. England's skyrocketing crime rate in the face of draconian gun laws shows that John Lott was right. More guns does equal less crime.


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I can recall a high school here in Texas I was visiting quite some time ago had an indoor shooting range. I don't remember which school it was or know if it is/was still in use, but that is exactly what every school should have...and indoor shooting range. That would certainly make PE more fun.

Posted by: MMW at March 11, 2004 8:12 AM

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