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• Information about Canadian gun laws for US visitors is here.
• Information about Mexican gun laws for US visitors is here.
• Environmentalists, in their own words, about why they really wanted DDT banned:
  • "In Guyana, within almost two years, it had almost eliminated malaria, but at the same time, the birth rate had doubled. So my chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it greatly added to the population problem."
    - Alexander King, Club of Rome
  • "Malaria was actually a natural population control, and DDT has caused a massive population explosion in some places where it has eradicated malaria. More fundamentally, why should humans get priority over other forms of life? ... I don't see any respect for mosquitoes."
    - Jeff Hoffman, environmental attorney
• Quote to ponder:
  "Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
  - Theodore Dalyrimple
• The complete military history of France is here.
• Pithy thought for today: The term "PETA kook" is a tautology.
• Gun Control Success Stories:
  • In the USA, the Washington Post newspaper whimpers that Washington DC "is not Dodge City in the 1800s", and thus should be allowed to continue its total handgun ban.
    • from 1876 until 1885, Dodge City had 15 homicides.
    • Dodge City's worst year for murder was 1878, when 5 people were murdered.
    • Washington DC had 169 homicides in 2006.
    So, yes, Washington DC is not Dodge City in the 1800s. Gun-banning Washington DC is far more dangerous than Dodge City was. But then again, what do you expect from a city whose former mayor (and current city councilman) was arrested for cocaine possession?
  • Since the UK outlawed handguns in 1998:
    • people in London are now 6 times more likely to be mugged than people in New York City
    • more than half of English burglaries occur when someone is at home (as opposed to 13% in the US)
    • with the exception of murder, violent crime in the UK is now far higher than the US. In Scotland, the violent crime rate is now 3% of the population; in England and Wales it is 2.8%. The US figure is 1.2%.
    • for the first time in history, British police are now routinely armed
    Gun crimes in the UK have more than doubled since the current Labour government took control. Recorded gun crime in the UK rose by 3% to 10,590 incidents in 2004 up to June, an average of 29/day, and a 14% rise in violent crime (265,800 incidents April-June compared to 233,600 in the previous year).
  • Since Canada passed its harsh gun control laws (among other things, outlawing most handguns) in 1995:
    • For the year 2003, Canada had 8,530 crimes per 100,000 (vs. 4,267 in the US). Of these, Canada had 958 violent crimes (vs. 523 in the US), and 4,275 property crimes (vs. 3,744 in the US). Canada is less safe than the US!
    • Toronto, once the safest large city in North America, now has more muggings, car thefts, and assaults per capita than New York City
    • Canada's overall crime rate is 50% higher than the US
    • 60% of US states are safer than any Canadian province
    • crime has risen in six of Canada's provinces and seven of its ten largest cities.
  • Japan, which effectively outlaws handguns (there are only 50 civilian handgun licenses allocated for the entire country, and not all have been issued), very severely limits rifle ownership, and has an elaborate licensing system for shotgun ownership:
    • has a higher murder rate than among the Japanese-American population in the USA.
    • has a suicide rate that is nearly double the USA's rate.
    • has widespread availability of handguns among its organized crime elements (the yakuza).
    Put another way, if you are a Japanese, you are less likely to be murdered or commit suicide if you move to the USA!
  Conclusion: gun control is very successful...in making a nation safe for violent criminals.

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