Gun control does NOT work! UK is the example.

So would banning guns actually reduce gun violence and crime? Well we do have a model to look at, and it’s the same model I point to when people want to start talking socialized medicine, it’s the United Kingdom. On the heels of the Dunblane massacre in Scotland in 1996 where 16 young children and their teacher were killed in the gym of their school by Thomas Hamilton, the cries went up just like they are going up in America now and ultimately a proposal was put forth banning all handguns, except .22 caliber target pistols.

Three months after the Dunblane massacre in March 1996, there was a national firearms amnesty that saw nearly 23,000 firearms and 700,000 rounds of ammunition surrendered.

Did it work? Actually it made things worse.

In 2003, just 7 years after the ban, the London Telegraph reported that firearms offenses have more than doubled since Dunblane.

Gun crime has more than doubled since 1996, the year of the Dunblane massacre, according to the latest Home Office statistics.

Last year (2002) it reached its highest ever level with more than 10,000 recorded offences involving firearms.