What Happens When You Ban Handguns? You Get Chicago
Posted on May 9, 2013 by Stranger
Someone from Cambodia came by searching for “what happens when ban handguns.”
In few words, you get places like Chicago, Caracas, Sao Paolo, and other places where gun possession is limited to criminals and politicians.
“Por Marzo,” Caracas had “cinco, siete, dos, ocho” or 6,728 murders. Annualized, that would be a homicide rate of about 225 per 100,000 population, or about 68,000 murders a year. In a city slightly larger than Chicago.
Chicago is not that bad. Yet. But 96% of Chicago’s murders are committed with weapons that have been banned since the 1980's. Since 2001, officially more than 5,000 Chicagoans having been murdered since 2001 – while only about 2,000 Americans have died in Afghanistan.
The bottom line is simple enough. The incidence of violence is inversely proportional to the number of guns in private citizens pockets. From several indications, including the number of guns checked at polling places, between 1895 and 1905, one man in five regularly carried a gun. Beginning in 1905, laws were put in place that forbade that practice, and violent crime and murder rates went sky high. As you can see in this table of the United States homicide rates over time:
 United States Homicide Rate, 1885 – 2011
As you can see, gun control kills.
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