(August 7, 2012 at 1:53 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Hey, I own several guns. There a problem with that? Europeans live by this amusing mindset that if you take away the guns you'll take away the violence.
And, the facts seem to back them up in that.
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTO...NSTAT.html
I'd like to see these stats adjusted to not account for suicides. Personally I think 2/3rds of gun related deaths being suicides says more for a need of better mental health care in the USA than it does for a need of more gun control.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal