OMG Guns Everywhere

[Rahul]

Living in England I simply fail to understand why any sane person would want to own a gun. In my almost 60 years of life here, the only guns I have ever seen here are the armed police occasionally at airports, and that's only in the last 10 years or so.

10 years? When I first visited the UK in 1995 I saw military type guards at the airport with machine guns. In fact it was the first time I ever saw a machine gun in real life.

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Once again with the "criminal" boogeyman, eh?

From 1993 to 2008, among homicides reported to the FBI for which the victim-offender relationship was known, between 21% and 27% of homicides were committed by strangers and between 73% and 79% were committed by offenders known to the victims.

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4557

That gun is far more dangerous to you or your friends/family than any "criminal."

What makes you think that no one is family or friends to all the criminals in the world?

Most rape victims know their attacker too.

But really, stating that most people are killed by someone they know therefore strangers are less dangerous is like that old joke about the person who heard most wrecks happen within 5 miles of your home so he moved.