(September 3, 2019 at 9:04 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 3, 2019 at 8:46 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Australia and New Zealand didn't force gun industry CEO's and gun shop owners to " care".
They banned private ownership of guns and confiscated them.
Play one side of the street, you yammerking harpy.
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Not true. Several of my neighbours have guns.
Boru
(September 3, 2019 at 9:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 3, 2019 at 8:46 am)Brian37 Wrote: Holy crap. Among first world wealthy nations we are.
We have way more firearm violence than Canada, England, Australia and Japan, just to name a few.
Well, you can prove anything if you keep adding conditions. For example, you have the highest rate of gun violence of all countries located between Canada and Mexico, but you have the lowest rate of gun violence among countries where people call themselves 'Americans'.
Boru
Under what conditions can you own guns?
My read on it is you have to "have reason" - and self defense is not considered to be a reason.