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| Originally Posted by Paul James Ask the coppers.
Statistics are great.
So banning all legal ownership didn't see the drastic decline that you'd hope for given that a large number of law abiding people were deprived of a perfectly legitimate pastime when the ban came about? A massive cost in compensating them for the guns that were destroyed was loaded onto the general public.
If legal ownership had been the root cause wouldn't the ban have reduced the figures to a very low number ?
Ironically the government is now chasing its tail trying to work out how we can legally run the pistol shooting events at the Olympics when they come here.
Funny old world innit. |
I'm not trying to debate whether your point of view is wrong or right, just trying to help you formulate a coherent argument without resorting to sweeping statements such as "vociferous minority groups" and "considerably more" without substantiating them.