http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_gun_vio_hom_hom_wit_fir-crime-gun-violence-homicides-firearms
Now look at those stats, the USA is number 7 in homicides by firearm? Right in the middle of vioent, despot controlled countries the likes of Zimbabwe? I wonder, how is it that the rest of the "developed" world is able to keep off these charts? Where's China? Where my EU countries at? And none of this 25 BS, the OG 15. I guess there's Germany and Spain, but otherwise, nations with millenia of warfare are somehow able to keep their populations from killing each other with the easiest and least involved method of ending another person's life...
Maybe NOT letting the masses feel entitled to possess something that deadly helped, or maybe people don't see a need to escalate violent situations with excessive force, or maybe there isn't a penis measuring contest with weapons, or some idea that the right to kill other people is god-breathed and divine.
This isn't the 1790s people, suburbia doesnt have bears, wolves and mountain lions around killing live stock and the new born child of the ranching family, nor is anyone in this country remotely motivated enough to get up off their ass as part of an organized militia to overthrow the government (we had 8 years for pete's sake), nor is the average gun totting blonde able to make an argument with enough logic to grant her Angel of Death credentials over all civilians within range... It's hard to imagine the USA having as much violent crime as it does if there weren't so many guns floating around.
It's harder to murder someone when you have to look in their eyes while you strangle them or fight them with a knife... It's also harder to hit innocents with stray blades, though if you're a clumsy ninja i suppose that could be a risk...
If all guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will have guns... giving the Police a much easier target.
