Posted by: annoyinginge
Posted by: crispychicken49
Posted by: Locke357
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Countries with increased regulation (not restriction) of firearms tend to have less firearm-related homicides per capita.
I wish Americans would stop pretending the only choices were between restricting all guns or letting everyone have an assault rifle. Look at Switzerland, look at Canada, for -blam!- 's sake America, learn from other countries for once /rant
Less than 1% of gun owners own an Assault Rifle. If you mean Assault Weapon, a term coined by the media, then very, very few crimes are committed by assault weapons. Most gun crime is actually the direct result of another ban. This ban is the Drug Ban. Most gun crime is between a criminal, who being a criminal, cannot get a gun legally, kills someone with a gun at a drug deal. This wouldn't happen if drugs were legal but that is another story.
Why should responsible people be restricted? Why should we all have to pay for that one idiot? You guys act like all gun owners are violent murderers.
Because the loss of life from even one school shooting outweighs the loss of whatever you use guns for several million times over.
But the problem is, banning a gun won't work. Banning things doesn't work.
The countries that is does work in are not very racially diverse. People don't like to admit it but race plays a factor in all this. Look at Greece. Before the Albanians came there was little crime. Now? There are robberies everywhere. When you have an influx of people with massively different upbringings, like stealing, violence, then a ban won't do anything because they are used to that.
Besides it is already illegal to kill someone, why does it still happen?