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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
now I ask you, in your largely gun free society, are people NOT at the mercy of criminals who aren't following those gun laws?
ok, i'll accept that knives have been carried for years before this attention was brought to them, so I ask WHY has that attention been brought to them?
by your statement here, I can only assume that your premise is that crime in England is mostly associated with 'normal' people being allowed access to guns. Are the English that inclined to commit crimes just because they were able to own a gun?
Having a gun makes me feel safer than I would if I didn't have one, does keeping guns out of the hands of private law abiding citizens make you feel safer from criminals who have guns illegally?
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Unlike in america, every bad guy and his best friend don't carry guns, they're not a 'problem' per se, as only a small minority use them. We did ban guns over one incident, and it never happened (touch wood) again. I can think of several instances in the states where kids have gone into their schools and blown people away. Pretty good reason to ban guns IMHO.
Guns arn't a problem here anymore than they are in other countries that have restrictions on personal gun ownership.
Would you have one of your kids go into school with a knife because some other kid may or may not have one? How about sending him in with a gun for the same reason? Or maybe a baton or baseball bat.
Your argument seems to be that 'well, the bad guys are breaking the law, and they seem to like it, so why not let everyone else have weapons, yeh, that'll do'.
Attention has been brought to knives recently because several murders have been commited, a large proportion against kids, over the past few months. Bearing in mind england only has a few hundred murders each year, this is a big deal.