Britain's experience with gun crime after Dunblane is pretty well-known among folks who follow that kind of stuff, but it is conveniently off the radar of those who don't want idealism corrupted by facts and is unlikely to intefere with the "Vision of the Annointed" <s> ( I have to assume you're a Thomas Sowell fan )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.