No Surprise Here

WND reports on the results of two government studies by the Justice Department and the National Academy of Sciences:

While it is an article of faith among gun-control proponents that government restrictions on firearms reduces violence and crime, two new U.S. studies could find no evidence to support such a conclusion.

The National Academy of Sciences issued a 328-page report based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, a survey of 80 different gun-control laws and some of its own independent study. In short, the panel could find no link between restrictions on gun ownership and lower rates of crime, firearms violence or even accidents with guns.

Meanwhile, a study released by the Justice Department suggesting background checks at gun shows would do little to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals.
The study noted the number of criminals who obtained guns from retail outlets was dwarfed by the number of those who picked up their arms through means other than legal purchases. The report was the result of interviews with more than 18,000 state and federal inmates conducted nationwide. It found that nearly 80 percent of those interviewed got their guns from friends or family members, or on the street through illegal purchases.

Less than 9 percent were bought at retail outlets and only seven-tenths of 1 percent came from gun shows.

The Justice Department's interviews also showed so-called "assault weapons" are not a major cause of gun violence. Only about 8 percent of the inmates used one of the models covered in the now-expired assault weapons ban, signed into law by the Clinton administration in 1994.

Seems like everything the freedom-loving, responsible gun owners (of which I am one) have been saying for the past 25 years is true.

Once again, we see one of the Left's prized agendas on life-support. Nonsense based on emotion, without a thread of reality to support it.

So lets see what kind of conservative George Bush is in this situation. With absolutely no justification for keeping them on the books, how will George Bush rationalize maintaining unconstitutional gun laws?

Pull the plug on gun control.
Repeal all federal gun laws now!