1 It's amazing that the left can't grasp the fact that crime goes down when there is an armed citizenry. But that is not the agenda of the left, there is irrifutable evidence that gun control and confiscation has increased all levels of criminal activity in the civilized countries of Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand. Just to mention a few countries where their governments don't want to deprive the criminal of the right to prey on their victims unopposed.