Myth: Britain has strict gun control and a low crime rate
Fact: Since gun banning has escalated in the UK, the rate of crime especially violent crime has risen.
Fact: Ironically, firearm use in crimes has doubled in the decade since handguns were banned.46
Fact: Street robberies soared 28% in 2001. Violent crime was up 11%, murders up 4%, and rapes are up 14%.48
Fact: This trend continues in 2004 with a 10% increase in street crime, 8% increase in muggings, and a 22% increase in robberies
Fact: ... [There is] nothing in the statistics for England and Wales to suggest that either
the stricter controls on handguns prior to 1997 or the ban imposed since have controlled access to such firearms by criminals.50
Fact: A continuing parliamentary inquiry into the growing number of black market
weapons has concluded that there are more than three million illegally held firearms in
circulation double the number believed to have been held 10 years ago and that
criminals are more willing than ever to use them. One in three criminals under the age of
25 possesses or has access to a firearm. 53
Fact: Handgun homicides in England and Wales reached an all-time high in 2000, years
after a virtual ban on private handgun ownership. More than 3,000 crimes involving
handguns were recorded in 1999-2000, including the 42 homicides, 310 cases of
attempted murder, 2,561 robberies and 204 burglaries.54
Fact: Between 1997 and 1999, there were 429 murders in London, the highest two-year
figure for more than 10 years nearly two-thirds of those involved firearms in a
country that has virtually banned private firearm ownership.56
Fact: Over the last century, the British crime rate was largely unchanged. In the late
nineteenth century, the per capita homicide rate in Britain was between 1.0 and 1.5 per
100,000.57 In the late twentieth century, after a near ban on gun ownership, the homicide
rate is around 1.4.58 This shows that the homicide rate does not vary with either the level
of gun control or gun availability.
Fact: The U.K. has strict gun control and a rising homicide rate of 1.4 per 100,000.
Switzerland has the highest per capita firearm ownership rate on the planet (all males age
20 to 42 are required to keep rifles or pistols at home) has a homicide rate of 1.2 per
100,000. And to date, there has never been a schoolyard massacre in Switzerland.59
http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/5.1/gun-facts-5.1-screen.pdf
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