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October 26, 2006

QotD: Australia's gun buy-back

[Australia's half-billion dollar gun buyback program] made no difference for the same reason as establishing the gun registry in Canada has made no difference — it's already illegal to shoot people.

Despite laws banning the practice, the problem of people shooting people (along with the closely related "kniving people" and "bludgeoning people") persists. Faced with that difficult reality, gun control advocates turn to delusion as a solution — arguing that laws against owning murder weapons will succeed where laws against commiting murder have failed.

Kate McMillan, "Gun Control Failure", Small Dead Animals, 2006-10-24

Posted by Nicholas at October 26, 2006 12:59 AM
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