Just to exemplify the effectiveness of these bans, the English "1997 Firearm Act" will be made an example. On the year of Lady Diana Spencer's tragic vehicular accident, a Thomas Hamilton used four handguns to horrifically murder 18 people (16 of whom were school children, all under the age of seven), while injuring 15. This later proclaimed "Dunblane Massacre" led to the English Parliament passing the "1997 Firearm Act", essentially banning all modern guns; with assistance from the earlier Firearm acts of 1920, 1937, 1968, and 1988. Since Britain's ban on firearms, it's crime has quite oddly skyrocketed. During the years 2000 through 2004, armed robbery rates escalated 170.1% higher than pre-ban, kidnapping increased 144.0%, assault rose 130.9%, murder rose 117.6%, and sexual assault increased 112.6%. Firearms were used in about 40% more than before, 3,685 recorded crimes in year 2000 compared to 2,648 in year 1997. Though England has virtually no legal gun ownership, they have one of the highest crime rates in the civilized world; 2,034 per 100,000 citizens, compared to America's …show more content…
Switzerland has set up their firearm laws so they can have a safe existence while over 25% of the population has at least one personal firearm. The country does this by, unlike the USA, letting citizens who served in the military to keep their weapons after returning home. Switzerland also has a thorough, but realistic "background check", as we like to call it; and require citizens with weapons to be taught to use them properly. In the year 2014 the country had about 170 homicides, 18 of which involved guns, making its gun crime rate 0.49 per a 100,000