freedomdwarf1
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ORIGINAL: BamaD No, you and even Obama miss the point entirely. Do we? Most of the rest of the world outside of the US seem to agree with him. Even a good proportion of Americans agree with him. It seems just the pro-gun lobby don't. quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD When is the last time the government killed 150 of your citizens? When has that happened in the US?? quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD When is the last time one of your citizens (not working for a terroist organization) killed 200 people with a bomb? The difference is not guns. The difference is the prolific ownership of them - not the guns themselves. quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD It is a well documented fact, not my opinion, but fact, that in the last 20 years firearm ownership has doubled and violent crime has been cut in half. And I have not seen a single report that tributes the cut in crime rate to even more guns. quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD The increase in guns is not the sole, or even the primary, cause of the drop in crime, but it clearly didn't cause the explosion that you and Obama the 1st seems to think it should. In the same time your wonderful gun laws have had no real effect on crime. You are correct. We have such few gun crimes that what odd few we do have hit headline news. The fact that we, and many other countries, have such laws where the US doesn't, clearly shows in the stats that the gun crime rate in the US pales us into insignificance. quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD Drugs, drug money fueled gangs, and a widespread destruction of values are the cause. As Igor and I have both pointed out when there was less restriction there was less crime. Interesting that you both quote absolute figures, not per capita. For many years, even decades, the US have far outstripped any other 1st-world country for gun crime stats. quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD As you are clearly unaware firearm accidents have also plummitted during this time, why, because of education. If it were deemed that effective, it would be part of the general school syllabus like general health, sex education, and the main subjects are. quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD A grossley disproportionate level of crime takes place in the inner city (not because of race) where the unemployment rate among young blacks is upwards of 20%. You are attributing the crime rate to a single colour. I would call that racist. quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD Get them working re-instate values, and demolish the gangs and you will accomplish more than all the gun laws in the world. So why don't you do just that?? Oh right, you demand that they are taken out by armed police. We have gangs here. Some are highly territorial and do fight and cause deaths. But because of our not-so-liberal gun laws, we don't have the gun deaths in the same proportion that the US has. It's a very simple per-capita comparison. The US beats all of the rest of us put together. quote:
ORIGINAL: BamaD Not only that but they don't enforce the laws we have, don't you think it might be a good idea to actually see if the current laws have an effect before you start passing more laws to not enforce? I agree. But how long does the rest of the world have to wait for the USA to get on with it?? Another 2 or 3 decades?? The laws you have are feeble, often unenforcable, and way too liberal. You need something very radical like the rest of us. But you won't hear of it because of your ideology of the 2nd and are entrenched in that PoV. And we hear cries that it persecutes the law abiding citizens and lets the criminals have the guns. Pffftttt!!! Criminals will get guns no matter where in the world you live. But if the general populace didn't have them, your average assailant won't have them either. Ergo: gun crimes are almost wiped out - the stats do and continue to show that. It's no good quoting silly stats like that gun crimes have dropped - so have ours and various other crimes here too and by a higher margin than that of the US.
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