Gun ban will only make

foolish voters feel safe

Remember the bumper sticker: “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”?

Gun bans don’t work, but they make foolish voters feel safe from the armed thugs all around them. The misguided children marching for gun control should look hard at Mexico, where buying a gun is very difficult and advertising guns is illegal. Mexico had over 25,000 known murders last year, compared to 17,250 in the US in 2016 (the last year for which data is available). Tijuana recorded 1,744 murders last year and over 549 more so far this year, while San Diego, right next door with no gun ban at all, had just 34 murders last year.

London, where handguns are banned, surpassed New York City in murders in February and March (though in January, New York had 18 murders, London 8). Gun-controlled England, Canada and France have all seen horrible mass killings using just cars and trucks (and illegal guns), while the Boston Marathon bombers used just an old pressure cooker.

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Frank Louis Blair Koucky III

Carmel Valley

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