Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Gun control advocates insist that if we could have all firearms registered, and government permits for every transfer, then crime would be non-existent.\u00a0 Everyone would register their firearms, non-registered firearms would be confiscated, no guns on the street means no crime. \u00a0Easy.<\/p>\n
In the entire country of Mexico, there are only 3,153 firearms<\/a>.\u00a0 That\u2019s the total number registered for private individuals to legally own.\u00a0 I suspect that number does explain the violent crime rate in Mexico<\/a>.\u00a0 But not the way gun controllers believe it does.<\/p>\n
Joe doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And every decade or so, some of them figure it out, and move on to greener political pastures, to be replaced by a new generation that thinks they’ve discovered the holy grail with “common sense gun laws”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Gun control advocates insist that if we could have all firearms registered, and government permits for every transfer, then crime would be non-existent.\u00a0 Everyone would register their firearms, non-registered firearms would be confiscated, no guns on the street means no crime. \u00a0Easy. In the entire country of Mexico, there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,11],"tags":[393],"class_list":["post-67360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","category-world","tag-common"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67361,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67360\/revisions\/67361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}