Gun control: for or against?

[Rosenrot]

I favor it. People can't have guns around here....

[Contra Mundum]

The pro-gun control advocates here tend to be Western European and/or female while those opposed to gun control are American and East European. Not really surprising.

[Contra Mundum]

Notice how Americans oppose gun control...

this is the result:

homicide rates per 100,000 population

USA 5.9

EU 1.2


!!!

Americans have a nigger problem not a gun problem. American states that are overwhelmingly white tend to have very little gun violence even though those states are awash in guns.

I believe in Switzerland some households have automatic weapons but there is very little gun violence in that country.

[Wulfhere]

Americans have a nigger problem not a gun problem. American states that are overwhelmingly white tend to have very little gun violence even though those states are awash in guns.

I believe in Switzerland some households have automatic weapons but there is very little gun violence in that country.

Yes, you're right. But imagine how much better it would be if those blacks didn't have easy access to guns.

[Money Shot]

I am a strong proponent of gun control.


I just can't stand to see perfectly good ammunition going to waste by not hitting it's target.

[Joe McCarthy]

The pro-gun control advocates here tend to be Western European and/or female while those opposed to gun control are American and East European. Not really surprising.

I agree, though the decline of the British is alarming. They went from having loose laws that inspired ours to having a more prohibitive gun control regime than Nazi Germany:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...0&postcount=16

Indeed, Britain's gun control laws look more like those of Jamaica than the United States. It could be that the United Kingdom (unlike Eastern Europeans), in lacking a period under tyrannical Communist police states, lacks an appreciation for the liberty it has lost.

[Jake Featherston]

Yes, you're right. But imagine how much better it would be if those blacks didn't have easy access to guns.

Would it make you feel any better if the Blacks threw each other out of windows, instead?

[Wulfhere]

I agree, though the decline of the British is alarming. They went from having loose laws that inspired ours to having a more prohibitive gun control regime than Nazi Germany:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...0&postcount=16

Indeed, Britain's gun control laws look more like those of Jamaica than the United States. It could be that the United Kingdom (unlike Eastern Europeans), in lacking a period under tyrannical Communist police states, lacks an appreciation for the liberty it has lost.

The liberty to live in a society full of gun crime? No thanks.

There was, indeed, a traditional right to carry arms. But this was rendered unworkable by technological advances - much more efficient killing weapons, at much lower cost. The British were able to tackle this head on, because we lack a straightjacket written constitution. We evolved with society and banned them. The result of this is that even the blacks here don't have easy access to guns.

[Wulfhere]

Would it make you feel any better if the Blacks through each other out of windows, instead?

Yes, it would. Because with guns, they are a much greater menace.

[Joe McCarthy]

The liberty to live in a society full of gun crime? No thanks.

This assumes the fallacy that Britain has EVER been a society full of gun crime, even before restrictive gun control. Ownership has never been high, and the major gun legislation of recent decades has come from highly politicized and publicized sensationalized shootings.