Friday, June 08, 2007

Only in America...

My brother in law has this stern warning to terrorists pinned on his warehouse wall.

He and my other brother in law rented the guns out in the Nevada desert and by the looks of that grouping, they're pretty handy with them!

As a Brit, an interest in handguns is entirely alien to me... However it's interesting to note that the gun crime figures in New Jersey have risen sharply since the NJ State legislature brought in some of the toughest gun control laws in the country.

It's a similar story in England, where the outright ban on private handgun ownership preempted a threefold increase in gun related injuries.

When Tina and I finally get ourselves established, I don't think we'll get ourselves a gun. They frighten me too much. But I am willing to accept that banning handguns is not the answer to stopping America's terrifying gun crime statistics.

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