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[Raeven]

Brian... one thing it has to do with for sure is relative population. You guys have, what, 6 million people? Maybe 7? Against our 330 million?

Less than that, closer to four and a half millions. I'm not sure what population has to do with it - you have small towns, we have small towns. You have big cities, we have big cities (well...biggish).

But our heavily armed population simply don't go round shooting one another with the same frequency that your does.

Boru

But you have mostly long guns, don't you? As I recall from my husband, handguns were strictly off limits in NZ...? Do I have that wrong?

I do think ours is a more violent culture in general, but I raised population only to the extent that incidence will be less in a lesser population. IOW, if an incident happens to one out of every 1,000 people... fewer people translates into fewer incidents, does it not?

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I prefer handguns in the possession of only highly trained law enforcement types

Yeah....but if you read the Fucking Cops thread you'll see we don't get much of that anymore.

I suppose I should read that thread... I have a view from both sides of that aisle, so I stayed out of it.