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Originally Posted by stevie667
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.
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thats odd, because I hear of gun crimes committed against your disarmed citizens on a daily basis. On top of that, what is the rest of your violent crime stats? how many done with knives and clubs? how many rapes, assaults, robberies?
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Originally Posted by stevie667
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.
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I wouldn't have the kids armed, obviously, but more than one massacre has been prevented or stopped from having an adult around (not a cop) that had a gun.
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Originally Posted by stevie667
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'.
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no, my argument is that the bad guys are victimizing unarmed individuals, therefore those unarmed individuals should arm themselves to protect themselves. THAT will do.
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Originally Posted by stevie667
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.
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a picture perfect example of how banning guns did NOT prevent crime, it only forced those intent on committing crime to find a different means.