And the Home Office wonders why violent crime -- particularly home invasions -- has doubled since handguns were banned...

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/hosb0206.pdf
see page 78

and keeps increasing
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0108.pdf
see page 8

and according to the Brit press has trebled
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/t...name_page.html

or quadrupled
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2328368.ece

... a fact Toronto mayor Cottontop the Half Wit refuses to acknowledge in his campaign to deflect attention away from his failure to address violent gang crime.