Surely we've heard all these arguments before? I can't speak for anyone else in my country (Britain), but I sure as hell feel a lot safer with our gun restrictions.
Gun controls *aren't* like cryptology restrictions. Neither are they like banning violent games. There are valid reasons for using cryptology, and games are entertaining. Guns have just one purpose - to kill things. You might argue that there's recreational shooting, but that's either killing things or shooting inanimate objects - and you can shoot inanimate objects with paint guns, laser-tagging guns, whatever.
I'm not saying that the real problem here isn't a social one, but having guns around doesn't help the situation. America (as far as I can remember), has only about 3 times our population - and all spread out in a big old space, not packed in like sardines like we are here. And yet there has only been one gun/school incident here in my entire life - in contrast, we seem to be getting reports of people being shot in school from America every other month. I know it's not exactly scientific proof, but I have to sympathise with people who say that gun control might have prevented this.
When the problem is sorted out, and western societies are happy and well-balanced, then perhaps we could let them play with guns again. Until then...
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Surely we've heard all these arguments before? I can't speak for anyone else in my country (Britain), but I sure as hell feel a lot safer with our gun restrictions.
Gun controls *aren't* like cryptology restrictions. Neither are they like banning violent games. There are valid reasons for using cryptology, and games are entertaining. Guns have just one purpose - to kill things. You might argue that there's recreational shooting, but that's either killing things or shooting inanimate objects - and you can shoot inanimate objects with paint guns, laser-tagging guns, whatever.
I'm not saying that the real problem here isn't a social one, but having guns around doesn't help the situation. America (as far as I can remember), has only about 3 times our population - and all spread out in a big old space, not packed in like sardines like we are here. And yet there has only been one gun/school incident here in my entire life - in contrast, we seem to be getting reports of people being shot in school from America every other month. I know it's not exactly scientific proof, but I have to sympathise with people who say that gun control might have prevented this.
When the problem is sorted out, and western societies are happy and well-balanced, then perhaps we could let them play with guns again. Until then...