New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense

From the chaps across the pond, this article mocks the UK's self-aggrandization about being disarmed.  Funny, at least someone "gets it".  What's remarkable is that our own legislators can't get their heads around this concept, and it takes a British author to make the point for us.

 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guestˍcontributors/article2409817.ece

A few highlights:

Despite the recent spate of shootings on our streets, we pride ourselves on our strict gun laws. Every time an American gunman goes on a killing spree, we shake our heads in righteous disbelief at our poor benighted colonial cousins. Why is it, even after the Virginia Tech massacre, that Americans still resist calls for more gun controls?  The short answer is that “gun controls” do not work: they are indeed generally perverse in their effects.

More from that same article:

Virginia Tech reinforced the lesson that gun controls are obeyed only by the law-abiding.

America’s disenchantment with “gun control” is based on experience: whereas in the 1960s and 1970s armed crime rose in the face of more restrictive gun laws... over the past 20 years all violent crime has dropped dramatically, in lockstep with the spread of laws allowing the carrying of concealed weapons by law-abiding citizens.

In Britain, however, the image of violent America remains unassailably entrenched. Never mind the findings of the International Crime Victims Survey (published by the Home Office in 2003), indicating that we now suffer three times the level of violent crime committed in the United States; never mind the doubling of handgun crime in Britain over the past decade, since we banned pistols outright and confiscated all the legal ones.