frustratingly obvious

England, home of “the toughest gun control laws in the world”:

Gun crime has doubled since they were introduced. Young hoodlums are able to acquire handguns – either replica weapons that have been converted, or imports from eastern Europe – with ease. (…) The only people currently incommoded by the firearms laws are legitimate holders of shotgun licences, who are subjected to the most onerous police checks.

The last sentence, in particular, is something that should be attached to some research on the rise of firearm-related crimes in post-Dunblane England and translated into every conceivable language on the planet, in hopes that people will at last understand that such laws are useless in preventing criminals from acquiring guns.

UPDATE: now with the proper link.