NRA... NAF... DEF... same thing...
Charlton Heston, that´s it.
Becuase the American is a spoiled brat to whom nothing is denied by a government that knows spoiling is the key to enslavement.United States- 11,127
Why do you think there is such a difference in these numbers?
Or is this number just a little bit above the norm and should not be of concern?
What make the U.S. so different in this regard?
Not so- the second article of the Bill of Rights saysAmericans had a constitution that was meant to allow each american a sword... not a hydrogen bomb. It's all about defining "arms" and about getting a little constitution update every few years. As necessary as a car check or dental appointment methinks.
Dreamwalker said:Very seldom someone dies because he was shot. Most of the time people are injured by blades...
invert_nexus said:Fully automatic weapons are illegal, highly illegal. You can get semi-automatic though. And it's easy to acquire the know-how to convert it to fully auto.
invert_nexus said:About Canadians and the Moore film, I love the part where he's asking Canadians if they lock their doors. Everyone (all the ones he showed anyway) said they didn't. Even the ones that had been robbed refused to lock their doors. That says something right there. If you won't even lock your doors after being robbed and vandalized, I don't know what to say about you.
I also find it interesting that as he walked about "testing" this unlocked doors phenomenon, he did it during the day time. Now, my view is you lock the doors at night, but most people don't lock the doors during the daytime. Unless maybe you live in scumtown where everybody's stealing from everyone else. I've never personally lived in a place like that. And I've lived all over the western US. So, he could walk around most places in the US and achieve the exact same "unlocked doors madness" that he found in Canada. But if asked, I think most Americans would say of course we lock our doors assuming that he means when we're not home or at night.
Anyway, locks only keep honest people honest.
Mystech said:Haha with all due respect, if I were living in an environment where people are often stabbed or slashed, then I'd like to Cary around a hand gun.
Knives are more comomnly used on relatives- domestic violence is far more brutal than street crime.I did not say that people get stabbed often, I just stated that it is more common that people are injured by blades rather than guns.....
Personally, I would rather be threatened by someone with a knife than by someone with a gun...
Well, one thing to keep in mind is that the US has much larger populations than all those other countries. There are about ten times as many people in the US as Canada, so it follows that there will be fewer shootings in Canada than the US. Another thing to keep in mind is that in many of those countries (the U.K., France, and Japan for instance) it's nearly impossible for private citizens to own hand guns. This naturally means that there will be fewer shooting deaths. Note that this does not mean that there are fewer murders; it just means that people use different weapons to kill each other. For example, while it's true that there were only 68 shootings in the UK, there were over a thousand murders. The way More presents the statistics are somewhat misleading.moementum7 said:Why do you think there is such a difference in these numbers?
Or is this number just a little bit above the norm and should not be of concern?
What make the U.S. so different in this regard?
Then again, in Switzerland nearly half of the population is in the national guard and required to keep an assault rifle in their home, but the Swiss seem to have a pretty low murder rate. This (as well as a ton of other evidence) indicates that access to guns isn't a decisive factor in murder rates.Dreamwalker said:I have a theory, Americans have more guns than is good for them. Actually, in some of those countries (I only know Japan and Germany) it is rather hard to aquire a gun. Also laws are more strict on shooting people around here.
Generally in the U.S. you're only allowed to shoot someone if you have reasonable cause to be afraid for your life. What's 'reasonable' is left open to interpretation by the police. Usually if someone breaks into your house to rob you then you can shoot them, but it would be pretty difficult to convince the police in most places that you were afraid for your life because some random person was just wandering around in your yard and wouldn't leave when you told them to.I have heard that you may shoot someone in America if he tresspasses on your property, you just have to call a warning first. Or something like that. Here in Germany, such behaviour would be highly unlawful...