Originally posted by fearlessleader
gun regulations, sure, but banning guns, or making them inacsesable to common citizens just garentees that only pepole who don't care about the law to begin with will be able to get them. even if a violent criminal could not get a gun, he would still be able to kill pepole with a knife, but pedestyans can't defend themselves with knives, they dont know how.
People who have guns are vastly more likely to get killed by them, it's a fact. Domestic violence in a house with a gun, is something like 8 times more likely to result in murder, because it removes the visceral edge in the human psyche, and makes them more likely to resort to that final method of silencing an antagonist. And saying pedestrians can't defend themselves with a knife is ridiculous, do you think criminals get knife attack lessons? I don't think people should be carrying weapons in the street at all never mind arguing about the grade of offensiveness. If someone comes at you wanting to rob you and they have a gun, give them what they want and leave it, if you have a gun as well, someone will get shot.
If you add together the populations of Britain, Australia, Japan, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand and Portugal, you get somewhere near the population of the US. These are all countries with strict gun control laws. The total of gun related deaths in these countries is less than 200 a year. In America it's over 10,000. Now say guns are a good thing. I'm not saying that a ban on guns in America would work or even be practical (a sense of stable doors and horses), maybe the genie is out of the box too far to turn back but your particular arguments are not good ones. The ability to procure guns easily would not be a healthy thing to introduce into any nation. And your comments about the high rise in crime in the UK is also incorrect. There has been a 4% drop in violent crime over the last 2 years. Your comments seem to me to be ill-advised and insensitive.
I'm sorry but I had to get that off my chest.