"It's always too soon to talk about gun control"

[robkelk]

Fuck, we disarmed our police force in the middle of a Civil War, then disarmed the population - so only the bad guys had guns.

Wait, what?

What mad country did this and made this work?

IIRC, Northern Ireland during the Troubles. So within living memory - you can actually go there, talk with people who lived through it, and draw your own conclusions about the issue that are not filtered through anybody else's biases.