RE: Don't Rip My Head Off -- It's Worth a Read (Gun Self Defense Study)
December 19, 2012 at 2:21 pm
(December 19, 2012 at 2:12 pm)Ryantology Wrote: We have culture issues, true. There are many facets to this problem. Guns are one of the major facets and we have to stop pretending otherwise. Getting them under strict control won't solve all violence, but will reduce it significantly, and that's what actually matters. If we put a tenth as much effort into this as we do destroying and rebuilding other nations halfway around the world, we'd have it in the bag.
If getting guns under control will reduce murder, how come that's not what happened in the United Kingdom? Here are the murder statistics starting in 1946. The UK's gun laws started in 1963 and murder went up, not down. http://www.murderuk.com/misc_crime_stats.html
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