America has the highest homicide rate in the Western world. And don't give me that "guns don't harm, people do" crap. If people are so violent why give the most violent ones guns!??
Yes, and we also probably have the highest amount of people in poverty in the Western World too since our country is the size of Europe which accounts for having more crimes than anyone else. Heck, I have more people that live in my city than some of your countries have as a whole. Nice population density there.
And as I mentioned before, most gun crimes happen in places where there are bans on guns. Big cities are the places most likely to have a gun ban yet have the highest gun crimes. Why? Well, duh, criminals don't follow the law so guns being illegal doesn't mean a damned thing. Law-abiding citizens don't have a means to defend themselves against those criminals who number a lot higher than in most places due to a higher congregation of criminals in cities.
And we're not the most violent ones, the UK is worse. We have the highest total number of violent crimes due to population, but we don't have the highest percentage. The UK have the highest violent assault crimes. Deadly assaults will happen anywhere, and it doesn't matter if guns are banned because it'll be done with another tool or even their barehands if needs be. The victim doesn't have an approriate means to defend theirself against a bigger and more aggressive attacker. Guns solve that problem. As they say, "an armed socitey is a polite society". It's true because when you know there's a high chance of who you're about to insult, pick on, or commit a crime against, has a gun, you won't mess with em unless you're suicidal.
Considering over 50 million people in the U.S. own a gun, I don't see the gun crimes being out of hand with those numbers. And again, most of those crimes happen in big cities where poverty is an abundant problem and where the city most likely already has a gun ban on law-abiding citizens. Guns are here to stay. Sure, if you could snap your fingers and make all guns disappear, cool that'd work, but it's also fantasy. Guns will always exist and criminals will always have them. If you don't mind that and expect to talk your way out of an assault against you, go right ahead. That, or you can move away from those cities to a place that has guns and let other civilians protect you without your knowledge.
Another thing about your "most violent get guns" comment, as I find that amusing. Down in L.A., cops have a little there where you can trade in your own gun and get $50. For the life of me, I cannot understand the stupidity of the people that actually do that. In the bad parts of town of all places. Those are the ones that
need the guns to defend themselves! Each time those gun trades happen, assaults soon increase because of the lack of defense by those citizens, heh.
Knives are messy and many would never consider stabbing someone as it involves close body and actual contact with the victim, whereas a gun is a distant easily dispatched method of harm.
Messy? That's the excuse you're giving for a criminal not wanting to assault someone? LoL. Sure, maybe they're messy for you, a non-violent woman, but for someone with an aggressive mindset and/or a criminal, messy doesn't matter, LoL. If it gets the job done, it gets the job done.
1. Immediately ban all guns (except for military and law enforcement authorities). This means a ban on hunting with guns and the like - for the greater good. Sorry.
Yeah, that'll really work. How do you think gun crimes still happen in cities that have guns banned? Banning guns doesn't do a damned thing. Are we gonna have the police raid everyone's home to make sure they don't own a gun? It's easy to move a gun around without anyone knowing. Heck, I even know law-abiding citizens that have buried some of their old guns in fear of them getting banned. Just think what criminals would do to save em. They'll never disappear. Get it through your thick skulls.
Thre is no answer to the gun problem in America, as it is a long held culture.
The problem is the poverty and the poor people and others that have them.
Germany has a HUGE gun culture, they have no problems. Every person in Switzerland is required to have a gun in their home and also has a very low crime rate. A nice example of an armed society being a polite one. Guns are all over the world, yes, even in most Western countries!
Have you tried getting a better lock or an alarm?
An alarm? A joke. A better lock? What for? You do realize most burglars don't even use the front or back door to enter a home, yes?
Allowing anyone to have a gun means that there are more circulating for the bad guys to get their hands on.
Well, uh, considering that all countries in the world supply bad guys with arms, it's pretty easy for a criminal to get a gun. Most countries sell arms to other countries and make a killing off it, literally. There will always exist a black market so criminals will never have a problem. And no, not "anyone" can own a gun.
The accessability of guns helps law-abiding citizens. Gun Control hurts law-abiding citizens. Again, it doesn't matter how easy a common person can get a gun, a criminal will be able to get one easier. I can go out and literally buy a gun in 10 minutes, with no limit on the illegal mods. If I legally purchase one, I have to wait 10 days and limit myself to one a month. That criminal will outdo you every single time. Those laws don't matter for criminals. If you want to hinder yourself, go right ahead. Who you're trying to stop has no effect.
Most people here do not carry guns when committing crimes, but if they were legal, we'd all have them. I would be dangerous and so would everyone else.
You do realize that you're just making yourself, and others like you, look very crazy by saying that stuff? You guys are the ones we should fear. Your types that
do own guns are the ones killing everyone. For that, I'm glad psycho people are dying or getting throw in jail. It seems most gun owners are actually the sane ones as we follow protocol and safety big time. You don't have to worry about us, just the psycho people that don't own a gun. Yeah, I need my gun to protect myself from irritable people like ya'll that turn into the Hulk over any minor inconvenience. I'd never do or say that I'd lose my patience so easily and go so far as to assault them. But again, that's still just all talk from you as if it were true, you'd have already done those acts but with some other offensive weapon that's legal.
As it is I have merely been strangled, kicked in the head repeatedly, kicked with steel toe capped boots, had bricks, & knives thrown at me and of course fists etc. Oh and I've been kicked by someone wearing hockey skates.
Yep, shows you just how little the police can actually protect you. Not to mention little bobbies with their lil billy sticks, oh no! Shows how you aren't able to defend yourself. If only you had a concealed gun on you, you could have put a stop to all those assaults against you.
I used to carry a knife myself for protection to school and when out.
But I thought they were messy?
I have already stated that I would be dangerous if I had a gun, thus preferable I do not have one.
I have no problem with deadly force in defending myself.
So again, you fear yourself more than some criminal? Yikes! And what's with you not having a problem using deadly force to defend yourself yet are against gun ownership?
In the UK (and many other European countries) gun crime is not such a big issue, and we do not live in fear. Perhaps Americans could learn from this?
Oh yeah, we can learn not to live in fear, I totally agree. However, the amount of guns or us owning guns period isn't the reason for those crimes. Europe has a big gun culture. Quite a few countries are required every home to have a rifle inside as a militia. That's at least one gun per household.. one in four people if you take a family of four. Lots of guns yet they have low crime rates compared to our poverty-ridden cities than have gun bans.
Of course, for many gun owners, learning to shoot is much easier than conditioning their body with martial arts or similar defense techniques.
Oh my god, we need to ban martial arts. Martial arts exists only to harm people. You can kill a lot of people using martial arts. It's evil!
Strangely, then, Heston once made the point that guns will be the only thing to stop the military when they come to kill us for our guns. I've known a few military people in my day, and I don't think they'd obey such an order. Would you? "Go to your uncle's house and steal his guns. If he says anything about it, kill him."
Well, hey, in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, when people needed their guns the most to defend themselves from the crazy criminals out there going wild, the NOPD went and confiscated most guns from people's homes.
Perhaps the people best qualified to decide whether or not private ownership of firearms is a good idea would be the police.
Every cop I know is for it. I know many. They even go out of their way to letcha know they can't always be there to help you. They also tell us to always carry some kind of protection, even if not a gun, because freaks are out there. When you still have a few minutes before the police arrive at your home while the burglar or assaulter is in your house, what are you gonna do?
so they must have an educated opinion on whether or not banning guns would help reduce gun crime.
Here, try reading this. It pretty much sums up most of what I'm trying to say.
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/admin/books/files/FailedExperiment.pdf
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