The UK (a region that banned private firearms ownership in 97) reports that the medical personel there are now seeing regular shootings (after the ban) and are now
more prepared to treat gunshot victims, proving the ban that was intended to keep them from happening in the first place, is bogus.
Horay! Gun control works!
The chances that you will be shot are greater now, after the ban, but so are the chances that you will survive! Monumental success!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2419705.stm