Dig more into the death per capita on ANY nation... Don't concentrate on only guns, there are close relationships to how many people are murdered by ANY means nation by nation. Just pointiing out death by gunfire is ludicrous.
Personally... is a bullet maybe just an little bit easier to deal with then someone clubbing you to death, poisoning, run over by a car, stabbing repeatedly, etc?
If someone wants to do you harm there is ALWAYS a means for them to do it. And if they are serious, lack of a gun won't stop them.
Amazing what you can learn in a college Geographical Finanace class.
There ARE some people that shouldn't have guns true. But until they learn to figure out whom should NOT possess them, it seems some folks want the rest of the population to do without.
Handguns? My hubby hunts with them and never comes home empty. Actually prefers them as a rifle makes it too easy.
Shann... the old man also said your friend bought a SEMI auto version of a weapon that people identify as a sub or full machine gun.
Even at gun shows you HAVE to possess a VALID 3rd class Federal Firearms License to make such a legal purchase. *I* never used to know the difference in them before until I hooked up with this old man.
If someone was actually selling full autos without the proper papers, then anyone buying such a gun is in a world of hurt when they try and fire it ANYwhere. Just possession of a full auto vrings serious Federal as well as State level felony charges.
AR15 - semi automatic version of the M16, which is FULL auto. There are lots more of that sort of thing out there but I'm not that familiar with all of them.