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yes, but America has 10,000 gun deaths a year and the UK has 100-200, you know?
Many people can own guns and be totally responsible. Unfortunately it is not easy to tell the difference between those people and the people who will mis-use them.
Anyone in the UK who really wants a gun can get one... and there are still shootings carried out by criminals... I guess the argument the gun enthusiast would have is that pro rata the UK murder rate is similar to the US, but here people get stabbed or clubbed rather than shot... I dont have statistics to hand, but my own perception is that that simply isnt true. If you distribute freely weapons of lethal force,,,, I think that means more people are killed. And I should say, although I said no one in my school was ever shot... one kid did bring in a sawn off shot gun and point it some other kiids who were bullying him. He only meant to scare them (and I would guess t worked)... I dont know what happened to him, and the gun wasnt loaded... but he did get expelled.
In that situation, if we had armed guards in our school... that kid would have prolly been shot, or his gun probably would have been loaded... or maybe he wouldnt have risked it... but my opinion is that on the whole, guns tend to escalate things...
As for using guns against the government if they become corrupt... I dont think we live in the same world as the one in which that idea existed. You cannot defend yourself against the power of the state with a rifle or a hand gun.
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