RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 12, 2016 at 3:06 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2016 at 3:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 12, 2016 at 2:06 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:I'm not sure that comparisons are going to be very useful...we've already seen how different the us gun problem is, and how different stats play out in entirely opposite manners.(February 12, 2016 at 1:51 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Firstly, the idea that any idiot can get his hands on overwhelming firepower is a gross bit of misinformation. Secondly, in the US...mass shooters use handguns, not semi-auto rifles. Completely nuts motherfuckers are a small subset of mass shooters which is, itself, a negligible fraction of -our- gun problem. Banning guns to prevent one or two crimes...while creating an entirely new problem even more serious...as we ignore the initial -endemic- problem....is unlikely to go well - to achieve the results we hope for. It will cost us, though, tremendously.
A pistol IS overwhelming fire power. We have to register for airsoft guns here.
Quote:The amount of gun crimes that haven't happened because there are no guns available is a hard one to gage but the simple fact is that if guns were available people would die by guns more often. In the US there is a massive problem with guns, banning outright may not be the answer but something should be done.There's a massive problem with suicide and drug related crime/cops. Every available stat -in our country- tells us that the guns aren't the causative factor. Altering the rates of ownership -as we have in the past- does not have a noticeable effect on crime rates or murder rates.
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