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I would LOVE to be able to prohibit selling of arms in the US but the NRA (National Rifle Association) lobby is much too powerful. I don't think we should have guns for hunting or anything else. If no one has one then you don't have to defend yourself against one. I do agree it is safer in Europe. |
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BellaDonna
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in europe,child molesters/murderers get a few years in a comfortable cell with t.v.,radio,gym ,....i prefer old sparky...the U.S. has the right idea,the freedom to bear arms. |
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phil w
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Safer in Europe??? Have you lived there for any length of time?I live in France and people have no regard for each other here,No respect for law enforcement at all and they carry guns but are not allowed to use them unless being shot at,other then that it's for looks only! So if they are being attacked with a bat or knife they can not use their gun! Safe here....hell no! Guns in the right hands make it safer, it makes it put a question in a persons head before they act in an aggressive way if the person they are going to attack has a gun or not.Just my point of view being that I live in a France and yet come from the US. |
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Cars
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Check your crime statics, and number of arms manufacturers and there location, increases or decreases in violent crime after gun bans and so forth and so on. Do you really believe that all arms are made in the good old USA? If so, go back to school and study. In the meantime, I will live here and maintain my rights as a citizen and keep my guns. |
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Texan
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I don't agree with you on that statement and yes, I will keep my gun for those that want to brake into my house some night and do me harm. I'm happy that you feel safe over there. But here the bad guy will aways have a gun and so should the good guy. |
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jonny Atlantis
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Yeah, but knife crime is getting rediculous in the UK, i do agree that gun crime in the us is astronomical but many of them would probably be of the oppinion that you can have their guns only when you pry it out of their cold dead hands.
What about the other countries, in poorer countries in the middle east every photo you see, even some shepard in the mountains has an AK47 slung over their sholder. |
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My Evil Twin
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No, it's no safer in Europe where arms are forbidden because no matter how illegal guns are, there are still Black Market guns like AK-47s available. Have you ever heard of the Black Market? That's how people buy guns that they can't buy legally.
Have you ever heard of the truism "When Guns are Outlawed Only Outlaws Will Have Guns"? It's self-explanatory. |
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noobienoob2000
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Not by the crime numbers I see. It's not the guns that cause crime it's people. I could just as easily kill you with a frying pan as a gun.
The right to bear arms is a Constitutional right in America and it's our protection against an over controlling government. It's also the way we will protect ourselves in the coming invasion of the jihad. |
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adamdiran
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For Americans safety is not the real issue. Some belive (Without a lot of justification) that gun ownership deters crime.
In reality lower crime statistics in Europe probably have a lot more to do with you greatly superior social safety net. But crime isn't the real issue.
The core truth is that our connstitution's bill of rights says:
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
There are not a lot of things that every American would call "Sacred." We're the most diverse civilization on the planet. But if theres anything we agree upon as a society, anything at all, its in our bill of rights. We can't agree on much but I think that just about everybody agrees on that.
Its our culture.
And if that seems strange think on this. France now has a law outlawing dennying the Armenian genocide happened. Turkey has a law outlawing saying that it did happen. The idea of jailing someone purely on the basis of what they believe is so stunningly alien to Americans most of us can't concieve how anyone could tolerate a government with those laws.
Its your culture. |
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London (CNSNews.com) - An American academic has suggested that despite recent U.K. laws designed to restrict gun use and ownership, what Britain needs to cut crime is less gun control.
Joyce Malcolm, professor of history at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, and author of "Guns and Violence: The English Experience," said that dismantling of self-defense laws has resulted in increased crime rates.
Government statistics released this month showed a year-on-year gun crime increase of 35 percent.
Academic, Gun Control Advocate Disagree Over British Laws
By Mike Wendling
CNSNews.com London Bureau Chief
January 16, 2003
London (CNSNews.com) - An American academic has suggested that despite recent U.K. laws designed to restrict gun use and ownership, what Britain needs to cut crime is less gun control.
Joyce Malcolm, professor of history at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, and author of "Guns and Violence: The English Experience," said that dismantling of self-defense laws has resulted in increased crime rates.
But a leading British gun control advocate has taken issue with Malcolm's conclusions and argued that less gun control would intensify the level of violence on British streets.
Strict Laws
Britain implemented some of the toughest gun laws in the world after a mass school shooting in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996.
Under current rules, handguns are banned, and all rifles and shotguns must be registered with police.
Recent initiatives have gone even further, and last week, the government proposed a mandatory five-year sentence for illegal possession and use of a firearm.
In a phone interview, Malcolm argued that restrictive British gun laws dating back to 1953 haven't worked in the way legislators intended.
"They have, in fact, had a perverse effect," Malcolm said. "When there were no or relatively few restrictions on guns in Britain, there was a very low level of violent crime. Since the ban on handguns, crime has skyrocketed."
Government statistics released this month showed a year-on-year gun crime increase of 35 percent.
"Current gun laws in Britain are not making people safe," she said.
Per-capita violent crime rates in Britain are now greater than in the United States for all categories except murder and rape, Malcolm said. According to statistics released by British police last year, a Londoner is about six times more likely to be mugged than a New Yorker.
Malcolm said gun laws were part of the larger issue of self-defense and stated that successive British governments have largely done away with the average British citizen's right to self-protection.
"This really is a larger self-defense issue," she said.
Gun restrictions have made burglars and muggers more bold, she said, and pointed to statistics that show only about 13 percent of U.S. burglaries occur when people are at home, compared to 53 percent in England. |
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Rawlyn
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That is absolute nonsense - Europe isn't any safer at all, and I really don't know where you got that information from. Also, firearms aren't forbidden in Europe, so you're doubly full of lies.
Rawlyn. |
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open4one
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Washington, D.C. has the most restrictive gun laws in the entire U.S., and the highest number of police per citizen.
They also have a higher per-capita rate of all crimes (with or without guns, including murder or overall) than Dodge City, Kansas did before they had any form of government, laws, or law enforcement.
The fact is that the "Wild West" was tame compared to places in the U.S. today that actually have restrictions on firearms ownership. |
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cabbie
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A man with a gun is a citizen...
a man without a gun is a subject!
Americans keep guns to insure that the government stays mostly under control. This country started in a revolution, and too much heavy handed crap from the politicians and there will be another one. |
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razzyrascal
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First off getting rid of our guns is not an option.
Secondly if we were to pass a law stating it was illegal to bear arms... who do you think would still be packing a gun?? OHHH yeah, the criminals. Criminals have no desire to adhere to the law. This "ban" would leave the rest of the society as sitting ducks while all the criminals were out raising havoc.
Third, I think crime would rise to uncontrollable levels. |
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alanninn
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are you crazy? give up our arms? you must have bumped your head! the law is in place so the government can't rise up against it's people.. face it ,i don't want to hold hands with the world and sing kum-bai-yah! you people actually trust your government that is so sad.. by the way your statistics are going thru the roof on strangulation's stabbings poison etc.. guns don't kill people,people kill people! you ever see a gun jump up and go bang on it's own? get real here ,we have the RIGHT TO OWN AND BARE ARMS! |
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Meow the cat
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No and no. |
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Gunny T
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Guns cause crime like pencils cause words... the lowest street crime rate in the world, (excluding military actions), is, today, in Baghdad, where everybopdy and their dog carries a gun...and grenades...and RPG's... A fact the U.S. anti gun lobby would just as soon be swept under their magic carpets... |
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*****
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The only thing a ban on guns will do is to stop shooting deaths, but what about those homicides commited by other means, like knives, ice picks, blunt instruments, poisonings, vehicular homicides, etc. People have been killing people since the dawn of man.The Rev. Billy Graham once said, "evil lies in the hearts of men, not in inanimate objects(guns)". |
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dreaming_again2002
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There are few safe places now anywhere. |
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MikeInRI
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You mean like in France last year were you have all those young muslim males burn cars in all your major and most of the minor cities of France. I really think Europeans have a inflated sense of self if they think their streets are really more safe because you don't have a right to bear arms. The most safe in my travels I remember ever feeling was actually in Israel where you see people carrying riffles every where. I think its all a matter of a point of view. I think if you want to see are really issues are with guns you should look at countries like Brazil where the numbers of people killed are rediculous.
One would have to wonder if people like the Nazis in Germany or the Facists in Italy - if they had a right to bear arms in those countries. |
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someones fairy
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No.I need my guns and no one is going to take that from me.
Europe is not safe. Get more info.Death happens every where from every thing. You can't stop people from doing what there going to do. |
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fr_chuck
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No, and next they can't be fobid, since it is one of the basic rights of the American people.
I guess Europe forgets who had to come save its rear twice in WWI and WWII. Things like this is what makes american great |
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Michael R
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"If guns were outlawed, then only outlaws would have them." It is the law abiding citizen that always gets the punishment for the criminals behavior. September 11 is the perfect example, some crazy idiots kill thousands of Americans and now we have to wait longer at the airports. If people did not kill people with guns then the conversation would be about knives, or forks, or spoons or whatever people are using as weapons at the time. |
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J
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Nope. Bearing arms ensures check and balance. Americans have the right to choose how our government is run. If for some reason the armed forces, etc went berserk and turned on the citizens of this country, we could fight back. It's about protection from the government and other people. I know it sounds idiotic to some people, but as a Southerner, I know my geographical area will always be a democratic society because we can defend ourselves from all enemies both internal and external. |
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our choice
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the reson the government dont make firearms sales illegal is:first off to much money for governments to give up . to many jobs lost such as police,lawyers,court workers, government agents.This would happen because crime would drop especially crimes with violence as a lot of criminals would think twice if they could get hurt by their victims. Make police walk beats but without firearms like some othercountries. the weapons are at the station if needed.Police would then have to learn to get along with people and not encourage violence. People get defencive when threatened whether by other people or police. |
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J S
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I love my gun and here is why:
2 years ago I got mugged by a drug gang. I called the police and they actually caught them. I recovered all my stuff.
I said I would aid the prosecution and help them by testifying against the criminals. Next thing I know I started getting death threats ( in mailbox, and phone ) that I should not testify.
One night, a guy broke my back window and climbed through in an attempt to kill me. Guess what? I was 2 steps ahead of him and he met a 4 HOLLOW POINT bullets.. He survived, but believe me, that turned the whole situation with this gang around for me.. BIG TIME! |
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Albert M
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is that a retorical question? |
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just browsin
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I know I know. It's this little disagreement we have over here about the whole right to bear arms thing in the Constitution. Does that mean all arms? Does that mean militia? We just can't agree on that. |
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Knight H
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