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Gun Crime Soars in England Where Guns Are Banned

Speech Wrote: Dec 15, 2012 8:41 PM

This has to be the most misleading and purposely deceptive article I have ever read in my life. Here are the only stats that count. Adjusted for equal population size . . . Firearm murders in the U.K. 2009 = 195 Firearm murders in the U.S. 2009 = 9,146 That is 4,700% more gun murders in the U.s. per capita

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Gun Crime Soars in England Where Guns Are Banned

Since NBC sportscaster Bob Costas gave us an anti-gun lecture two weeks ago during Sunday Night Football, we've heard a lot from progressives like Juan Williams, Bob Beckel and anti-gun advocacy groups about how countries in Europe with strict gun control laws don't have problems with gun crime. We've also heard the reason the United States has a "gun crime problem" is because we allow citizens to own handguns however, the numbers on violent crime committed using a gun tell a different story.

~~New~~ data out from the UK, where guns are banned, shows gun crime has soared by...

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