Due to Gun Control -

Due to Gun Control - According to the UK's Daily Telegraph, the UKhas the worst crime rate in the indusrialized world.

But wait - don't the gun control advocates still cite the UK as an example of all the good befall a gun-free society?

Instapundit notes that it's not totally about gun control, but that

Gun control is just the most visible symptom of a systematic surrender to society's worst elements that has been the core element of British crime strategy for over fifty years. Gun control is bad in itself, but it can only exist in a setting in which the right to defend oneself against aggression has already been devalued in a way that makes crime much more rewarding, and hence much more common. That's what has happened in Britain, and it's why the historically low British crime rates have skyrocketed.

The good news is that things have gotten bad enough that there are now voices of sanity being raised. The bad news is that the authorities still haven't caught on, responding to cellphone theft by putting up posters telling people to keep their cellphones out of sight in public.

The steady dripping of fact is slowly getting through.

Very slowly.

(via Instapundit, obviously)

Posted by Mitch at December 2, 2002 09:01 PM