Guns and Violence: The English Experience

Joyce Lee Malcom, an historian at Bentley College, has written a chronological survey of crime patterns in England since the High Middle Ages, and shows how crime has escalated in gun banning societies and has declined when guns have been made available to law abiding citizens.
British crime statistics are minimized because of the system used, and US rates are maximized, including defensive gun homicides.
“What Americans take to be natural – such as the natural right to self defense – is not at all natural for contemporary Europeans, not even in the country where the language of modern natural rights originated”. (Britain’s 1689 Bill of Rights)

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