We should distribute this info as widely as possible. There are three
bombshell paragraphs in this article. Pay very close attention to the
last sentence in each of the two following paragraphs:

[American criminologist William Calathes, the most sophisticated scholar
of Jamaica's gun polices, writes: "it is readily apparent that the Gun
Court Act did not succeed in lowering the rate of firearm-related
crime." He notes that "the public was expected to believe in the
deterrent potential of the Act while the political parties continued to
use firearm violence, and the Act itself, for their own political
purposes."

Calathes argues that Jamaica faced "contradictions between relatively
developed political tendencies and relatively backwards economic
forces." The government reconciled the contradiction by using "highly
developed skills of political management in propagating myths of the
deterrent value of an oppressive piece of criminal legislation."]

Kopel sums it up nicely in his last paragraph – especially the first
sentence:

[Britain and Australia show us the intermediate stages, and Jamaica
shows
us the terminal stage, of failing to stop the cancerous use of "gun
control" as a cynical tool of political management. Here in the U.S.,
Americans are being pressured into submitting to allegedly "reasonable"
and "common-sense" gun laws as the cure for violent crime. If you want
your hometown to be more like Kingston, Jamaica, you'll support these
laws.]