Advocates of gun control typically lack one thing to back up their arguments: facts and data.

Well, sometimes they pull out what they tout as facts and data, but upon further examination errors or other flaws and failures are found (including some “facts” being 90% made up…). Or they twist them, cherry pick, or other such means in an attempt to find material to support their cause.

But real facts stand on their own.

Dr. Franz Császár. “Gun Control and the Reduction of the Number of Arms“. A white paper published in 2000. And I doubt it was “funded by the gun lobby”, given Dr. Császár is a member of the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, Austria. In fact, it’s arguable some pro-gun people won’t like all of Dr. Császár’s conclusions. But again, facts are what they are.

Read the paper.

“Gun control” doesn’t work. It doesn’t keep guns out of the hands of criminals. It doesn’t serve to reduce crime. It doesn’t reduce rates of suicide. It brings enormous cost and burden to governments and taxpayers. It erodes civil liberties.

So why do people continue to lobby for something that doesn’t work?

Either they are ignorant, or have ulterior motives.

(h/t to Linoge for retweeting BCJayde’s tweet)