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Bad gun laws lead to bad crimes rates?

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In almost every country where restrictions were placed on civilian ownership of firearms for self-defense, crime rates have soared, including Australia, Canada, and Great Britain. Last fall, after a symposium dealing with firearms law and the Second Amendment took place at the George Mason University Law School in Arlington, VA several of these finding were eported on by the NRA’s ILA, and posted in the American Rifleman.

Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm noted that the end of a 500-year decline in violent crime in the United Kingdom coincided with the loss of the right to firearms ownership. He states that “After 50 years of those laws, Scotland, is now the most violent country in the developed world.”



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Another panel participant law professor Robert Cottrol documented that, originally, freed slaves in America were allowed to defend themselves with firearms, but later they lost this ability, after efforts by the Ku Klux Klan to get restrictive gun laws passed in the deep South.

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