This has already happened in England and Australia. After Great Britain banned most guns in 1997, making armed self-defense punishable as murder, violence skyrocketed because criminals know that law abiding citizens have been disarmed. Armed crime rose 10% in 1998. The Sunday Times of London reported on the new black market in guns: "Up to 3 million illegal guns are in circulation in Britain, leading to a rise in drive-by shootings and gangland-style execution." There has been such a heavy increase in the use of knives for violent attacks that new laws have been passed giving police the power to search anyone for knives in designated areas.
Where are we going? Who is taking us there? Should we be kicking and screaming? I know as a matter of fact that this is a LIE, if you don't like to call it BULLSHIT. Let's have a laugh and cite the sources of the datas. Then, compare the numbers of the "safe" gun driven american society.
Christ. Half the problem with this country is American's basic inability to understand the simplest concepts of the US government.
Yeah, and the other half is people like you who want to take away everyone else's *rights* because you're scared of what they might do with that right. As is usually the case, that fear is irrational. You have absolutely nothing to fear from 99.9999% of *legal* gun owners. I think the 99.9999% are people like you and me, stressed, prone to bad decisions and scared about everything. Putting a gun in the hand of someone grossly unprepared to use it is the worst harm you can do to any nation. It's amazing how the strict correlation between firearms casualties (not only as the consequence of a crime, an accident can happen too) and the number of firearms in a country is a concept beyond reach of the "average" american. Let's put it down simply like this: if you can't have a gun, is unlikely that someone else is easily going to get one, so you're safer than going around armed knowing that everyone else is in the same situation.
I'm Italian but my gf is american and thinks the same way and you would be amazed to know that in my country I'm considered a "right-winger". Just so you don't start with the usual blabber about those red europeans...
One of the greatest italian poets of all times, Giacomo Leopardi, achieved a perfect command of latin and greek just out of self study. Universities are greatly overestimated as knowledge source, even with the best professors, most of your knowledge always comes from self-study.
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Where are we going? Who is taking us there? Should we be kicking and screaming? I know as a matter of fact that this is a LIE, if you don't like to call it BULLSHIT. Let's have a laugh and cite the sources of the datas. Then, compare the numbers of the "safe" gun driven american society.
Yeah, and the other half is people like you who want to take away everyone else's *rights* because you're scared of what they might do with that right. As is usually the case, that fear is irrational. You have absolutely nothing to fear from 99.9999% of *legal* gun owners. I think the 99.9999% are people like you and me, stressed, prone to bad decisions and scared about everything. Putting a gun in the hand of someone grossly unprepared to use it is the worst harm you can do to any nation. It's amazing how the strict correlation between firearms casualties (not only as the consequence of a crime, an accident can happen too) and the number of firearms in a country is a concept beyond reach of the "average" american. Let's put it down simply like this: if you can't have a gun, is unlikely that someone else is easily going to get one, so you're safer than going around armed knowing that everyone else is in the same situation. I'm Italian but my gf is american and thinks the same way and you would be amazed to know that in my country I'm considered a "right-winger". Just so you don't start with the usual blabber about those red europeans...
One of the greatest italian poets of all times, Giacomo Leopardi, achieved a perfect command of latin and greek just out of self study. Universities are greatly overestimated as knowledge source, even with the best professors, most of your knowledge always comes from self-study.