Re: Man arrested over quad bike death

On Jan 13, 12:07=A0pm, %ste...@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:
> Mike.... <mikebcloth...@freedomnames.co.uk> wrote:
> > Following up to =A0Adrian <toomany2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >> Question for you - would there be more or less gun crime in the UK no=
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> > >> if hand guns hadn't been near banned?
>
> > >Unfortunately, I'm not psychic, so have no way of knowing.
>
> > Try comparing to places where legal guns are easy to get, but you know
> > the answer, you just dont vlike it.
>
> Actually I suspect that it's you that doesn't know the answer and also
> you who would not "like it" when you discovered the truth.
>
> Vermont has the most liberal gun control laws in the Western world. The
> basic assumption is that you are entitled to own a gun without permit or
> licence and entitled to walk around in public with a gun concealed on
> your person. I trust you will agree that this attitude is the exact
> opposite to the hysterical state control of guns in the UK?
>
> So how does Vermont measure up to the UK? They have the same murder rate
> as the UK, but 1/10th the violent crime rate and 25% fewer incidents of
> rape. Burglary in Vermont is one quarter the rate of that in the UK.
>
> That looks like a success story to me, show the the Home Secretary who
> wouldn't be ecstatic to see crimes of violence reduced by 90%, rape by
> 25% and burglary by 75%.

That's because Vermont is 99.5% white, grocerboi.  Try Georgia or
Michigan.