Posted by Phil Lee (149.32.89.229) on October 19, 2000 at 11:17:
There are approximately 150,000 illegal uses of firearms in this country every year. If we assume that each of those illegal acts were committed with a different gun, which is highly unlikely, that works out to less than one-half of 1% of all guns in this country will ever be used in a crime. So immediately we see that any gun control law starts out looking for a needle in a haystack. On the other hand, it's a proven fact that roughly 70% of the crime in this country is committed by 7% of the criminal element. And if we were to focus our law enforcement efforts not on the entire civilian population but on criminal activity, then we would see a much greater decrease in crime.