Because It's Worked Oh So Well In Great Britain, That's Why!

Initial hat tip to the Instapundit; however, I really like the way Ace has summarized this over at AoSHQ:

But this time, gun bans will -- like socialism -- finally work out.

It's just a matter of having the Right Elites running things, and this time we finally have the Right Elites.

Ignore the fact that all previous iterations of the Right Elites turned out to be the Wrong Elites, even though they thought they were the Right Elites. The current Right Elites are truly the right elites.

This time, it'll work.

Yeah, right.

In the meat of the linked WSJ Online article, we find that:

Great Britain and Australia, for example, suffered mass shootings in the 1980s and 1990s. Both countries had very stringent gun laws when they occurred. Nevertheless, both decided that even stricter control of guns was the answer. Their experiences can be instructive.

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The results have not been what proponents of the act wanted. Within a decade of the handgun ban and the confiscation of handguns from registered owners, crime with handguns had doubled according to British government crime reports. Gun crime, not a serious problem in the past, now is. Armed street gangs have some British police carrying guns for the first time. Moreover, another massacre occurred in June 2010. Derrick Bird, a taxi driver in Cumbria, shot his brother and a colleague then drove off through rural villages killing 12 people and injuring 11 more before killing himself.

Read the whole thing.

And they want us to be more like Europe?