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Originally Posted by kane
I don't blame the gun. What I don't like is the idea that people who are crazy or who are of the mind that they are going to commit a crime having easy access to guns.
The simple fact is that countries that have strict gun control laws also have much lower homicide rates than the US.
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perfect example of why we can't trust anti gun nuts
http://theacru.org/acru/harvard_stud...terproductive/
The findings of two criminologists - Prof. Don Kates and Prof. Gary Mauser - in their exhaustive study of American and European gun laws and violence rates, are telling:
Nations with stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher murder rates than those that do not. The study found that the nine European nations with the lowest rates of gun ownership (5,000 or fewer guns per 100,000 population) have a combined murder rate three times higher than that of the nine nations with the highest rates of gun ownership (at least 15,000 guns per 100,000 population).
For example, Norway has the highest rate of gun ownership in Western Europe, yet possesses the lowest murder rate. In contrast, Holland's murder rate is nearly the worst, despite having the lowest gun ownership rate in Western Europe. Sweden and Denmark are two more examples of nations with high murder rates but few guns. As the study's authors write in the report:
If the mantra "more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death" were true, broad cross-national comparisons should show that nations with higher gun ownership per capita consistently have more death. Nations with higher gun ownership rates, however, do not have higher murder or suicide rates than those with lower gun ownership. Indeed many high gun ownership nations have much lower murder rates. (p. 661
if you're willing to lie ... what can I say.... you think I want a person like that setting rules and regulations that affect me??
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The people that piss me off are the people that leave their guns laying around where they are easily stolen or mishandled by kids and accidents can happen. I am also annoyed by people who own guns that have people in their families/lives that have serious mental issues.
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sandyhook is a great example, so lets look at mental health issues not inanimate objects issues
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What most people don't know is that most gun crimes are committed with handguns, not semi-automatic rifles. If having an AR 15 is going to give someone a better erection, so be it. I don't give a shit if they own 10 of them, but I think we should have much stricter laws on the selling of handguns.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3240065.html