Actually the title is a trick question. Gun control supporters stopped caring about whether it worked a long time ago. They new push it as a way to signal their virtue and punish people they don't like.
They don't give a damn whether it saves a single life or costs hundreds of additional ones.
But for those who live in an evidence-based world, here's the latest news from gun control paradise (via the hated Instapundit):
Chief constable Andy Cooke, the national police lead for serious and organised crime, said law enforcement had seen an increased supply of guns over the past year, and feared that it would continue in 2019.
I am of course referring to the UK, which for the last two decades at least has been the gold standard for gun control zealots.
Of course, things aren't working out the way they are supposed to in ol' Blighty. Violent crime is soaring. It's hard to say how bad it really is, since official figures have been doctored for a while. This passage is particularly revealing, though:
Cooke said that the dynamics of the streets of British cities had changed and that criminals were more willing to use guns: “If they bring them in people will buy them. It’s a kudos thing for organised criminals.” [Emphasis added]
Ya think? Michigan just abandoned the war on marijuana for essentially the same reason. Marijuana is something people can grow themselves and they are willing to break the law to get it. After spending countless millions of dollars trying in vain to fight it, people have finally decided to give up.
The next paragraph is also pretty telling:
He said said one factor was a reduction in police proactive work because of government budget cuts leading to big falls in officer numbers: “The ability of law enforcement to respond to this rise in the criminal use of firearms has been hampered by the large reduction in police officers and the resultant diminishing of proactive capability to keep these criminals on the back foot.” [Emphasis added]
I emphasized that section because we also know that the UK police are spending a massive amount of time on Twitter and Facebook telling people to stop using naughty words. So maybe it isn't budget cuts but the fact that too many bobbies are handing out tickets for being impolite rather than working on more serious crimes?
In any event, the failure of gun control in the UK clearly demonstrates why it would never were here. The UK is an island, which should make gun smuggling devilishly difficult. The gun supply there was never that large thanks to it being a stratified, urban society.
And yet, despite both of those advantages and having close-captioned tv cameras on every corner, still the supply of illegal guns is going up.
It's a puzzler, ain't it?
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