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What's weird ? -
you were trying to say that say that a country like Switzerland (with a high rate of gun ownership) has a low rate of gun crime ....... well the statistics show that per 100,000 people their rate of gun crime is significantly higher
Then take a country like Japan where gun ownership is extremely low - & so are gun related murders (1.8%) take the guns out of the equation & people wont be shot."
There is usually about 80 to 90 homicides per year in Switzerland. Not many really. A bit over half are committed by firearms. Some of them are criminals killing each other. But that is not the point I’m trying to make. The point I’m trying to make is that it makes no difference whether someone kills someone with a gun or by other means. Murder is murder. People with the intent to kill another will do so. Every house in the world usually has a very large kitchen knife lying on the counter in their respective kitchens. This is actually a more effective weapon than a firearm in close proximity. Should we now start banning these.
After Howard brought in the gun laws, violence didn’t go down, armed hold-ups didn’t go down, murder didn’t go down, crime in general didn’t go down. People just used difference means. People started using knives, machetes, lumps of wood with nails hammered into them etc.
You said, “take the guns out of the equation & people wont be shot”. What is the difference between being shot and stabbed. Personally, as a general rule, I would rather be shot than stabbed.
Another point to note is this ridiculous view that ‘military style’ rifles and ammunition are so dangerous to people. They are not more dangerous than hunting rifles. In fact the opposite is the general rule. There are people alive today because they were shot by ‘military style’ rifles and ammunition rather than by a hunting rifle and ammunition.
Military style rifles are designed to hopefully wound. Armies wish to wound their enemy, not kill them as a general rule, because this takes so many other soldiers to take them off the battle field and care for them and nurse them back to health etc.
I would rather be shot with an M16 firing a tiny little .22calibre bullet with a ‘solid’ projectile than with a high powered hunting rifle which fires a much larger bullet at a lot faster speed and with a bullet designed to open up on impact and drop big animals dead instantly.
However this is the trend in the USA with the anti-gun lobby at the moment.
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/07/doing-math-guns
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