Dear Friends As we move closer and closer to the day when all guns will be banned from the common citizens, make no mistake about it. your chance of survival will be greatly diminished. Your chances of being a victim of a violent crime will go up. you will be left without a means of protectiong your property and your life. They will never take the guns out of the hands of criminals... Actually,,, the law isn't even designed to do that. the laws for gun control only effect those who already abide by the law. Taking guns from citizens will do more harm than good. Every country that has done it has seen an increase in violent crime. every Single One. Every city in America where there have been gun bans imposed there has been a correlating rise in violent crime. Don't fall for this gun safety deal. It will work against you if you are a law abiding citizen. It will give criminals a hugh advantage over you. Never take a knife,,,,,,,,to a gun fight. On a June evening two years ago, Dan Rather made many stiff British upper lips quiver by reporting that England had a crime problem and that, apart from murder, "theirs is worse than ours." The response was swift and sharp. "Have a Nice Daydream," The Mirror, a London daily, shot back, reporting: "Britain reacted with fury and disbelief last night to claims by American newsmen that crime and violence are worse here than in the US." But sandwiched between the article's battery of official denials -- "totally misleading," "a huge over-simplification," "astounding and outrageous" -- and a compilation of lurid crimes from "the wild west culture on the other side of the Atlantic where every other car is carrying a gun," The Mirror conceded that the CBS anchorman was correct. Except for murder and rape, it admitted, "Britain has overtaken the US for all major crimes." In the two years since Dan Rather was so roundly rebuked, violence in England has gotten markedly worse. Over the course of a few days in the summer of 2001, gun-toting men burst into an English court and freed two defendants; a shooting outside a London nightclub left five women and three men wounded; and two men were machine-gunned to death in a residential neighborhood of north London. And on New Year's Day this year a 19-year-old girl walking on a main street in east London was shot in the head by a thief who wanted her mobile phone. London police are now looking to New York City police for advice. None of this was supposed to happen in the country whose stringent gun laws and 1997 ban on handguns have been hailed as the "gold standard" of gun control. For the better part of a century, British governments have pursued a strategy for domestic safety that a 1992 Economist article characterized as requiring "a restraint on personal liberty that seems, in most civilised countries, essential to the happiness of others," a policy the magazine found at odds with "America's Vigilante Values." The safety of English people has been staked on the thesis that fewer private guns means less crime. The government believes that any weapons in the hands of men and women, however law-abiding, pose a danger, and that disarming them lessens the chance that criminals will get or use weapons. http://www.reason.com/news/show/28582.html