Kevin has a wonderful article about gun control in Scotland. He notes that in Scotland, where "shotgun-toting criminals felt safe enough to blast a cop at the police station" their main focus of concern is over the handful of legally owned and registered long guns. (All handguns are illegal.)

Their assumption is that the mere proliferation of legally owned rifles and shotguns, (all 80,000 of them) is what is feeding the increasing crime rate. The logical conclusion from their assinine assumption would be that less legally owned firearms would mean less crime.

If that's the case, they should just get it over with, and ban guns completely. Hell, it's worked so well for DC, right? I mean, it's not like they're the murder capital or anything.