Show Crime and Punishment An article by Ms M M. F P. P Harvey in National Review Is entitled They Have Gun Controls Controls' In and and andr Inde indeed d they do j England started out years ago agot agoto agoto t to write laws against guns The British thought they had the answer to crime prevention by simply depriving private citizens of the right of gun ownership For Fora a number of years the antigun laws were were credited with holding down the crime rate Then in 1957 i the British revised their traditional and very stern homicide laws The crime rate began to rise Again in the words of Ms Harvey l the humanists and the doctrinaire wingers left in Britain's Labor Party Voted abolition of capital punishment Th The crime rate began to soar Murder and manslaughter increased steeply after after af af- af ter 1957 Until 1957 says Ms Harvey the killing of another human being whether in cold blood in a robbery or in the heat of personal passion always meant a murder trial and except in cases of insanity a strong probability that the killer would hang In other words in England the punishment punishment pun pun- for crime has softened Gun controls are no deterrent to the crimin crimin- a al Those who want them can ge get guns A lesson should be plain for the United United United Unit Unit- ed that States lesson is grimly stressed in Ms Harveys Harvey's concluding words The failure of gun controls In Britain is probably probably pro pro- b bably bly the best evidence available anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where In the world to demonstrate that it is only capital the punishment-the crimInals crimInal's criminals criminal's crim rim inal's fear of judicial which homicide deters the predators in human society from taking the lives of innocent victims if they are strong enough are armed with firearms and know they wont won't die for the murder they have committed |