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Originally posted by Richard Notton
I don't want to set a hare off and I'm not really qualified to judge but there seems to be a horses for courses argument. The figures show that per capita the US has 40 times the gun deaths of the UK, but it does ignore the established very commonplace ownership in the US whereas, even when it was allowed with difficulty, it was very, very rare here.
Totally different scenario I think.
R.
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Even I, an avowed gun owner's rights advocate and devout supporter of the 2nd Amendment wouldn't argue the co-relation between availability and usage of firearms in crimes. The statistics speak for themselves. Yet many such as I, despite the most dire provocation seem able to restrain ourselves from grabbing the closest firearm and promptly doing away with our antagonist. So many others however, seem incapable of the slightest restraint. There is an element, a class, so-to-speak of people in American society who's music, dress, and deportment glorify the taking of, rather than the earning of, a better lifestyle. These people make up a disproportionate percentage of felons and murderers in our society and I think if their crime numbers were removed from the statistics, you'd see a much safer America. In the interim, I hope to continue to be able to enjoy the right to self defence when Alex and his Droogs show up, rather than sending out a CQD to summon and wait on the police to ID my body.