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Originally Posted by zed wolf
I like guns, I think everyone should have several. It is my opinion that if everybody had a gun with them at all times there would be less criminal use of guns. I mean really, A guy isn't going to pull a gun to rob a store if he knows everyone else there has one too. The same goes for other crime too, car jacking? if the driver has a gun too, along with everyone else on the street....
The only good form of gun control is using both hands.
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Thats one of the stupidest things Ive read on this forum. Heres the facts my gun toting friend.
A Global Arms survey done in 2003 found that the U.S. has the largest number of publicy owned firearms in the world. Where there is one gun owned for every American.
Heres the link
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0709-03.htm
Hmm now I wonder what country holds the highest death rate for gun related deaths in the world. After doing a quick google I discovered a study done in 1994. Guess who's first in line.
Here are gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in the world's 36 richest countries in 1994:
United States 14.24; Brazil 12.95; Mexico 12.69; Estonia 12.26; Argentina 8.93; Northern Ireland 6.63; Finland 6.46; Switzerland 5.31; France 5.15; Canada 4.31; Norway 3.82; Austria 3.70; Portugal 3.20; Israel 2.91; Belgium 2.90; Australia 2.65; Slovenia 2.60; Italy 2.44; New Zealand 2.38; Denmark 2.09; Sweden 1.92; Kuwait 1.84; Greece 1.29; Germany 1.24; Hungary 1.11; Republic of Ireland 0.97; Spain 0.78; Netherlands 0.70; Scotland 0.54; England and Wales 0.41; Taiwan 0.37; Singapore 0.21; Mauritius 0.19; Hong Kong 0.14; South Korea 0.12; Japan 0.05.
A link to verify
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvintl.html
And just in case you were interested, in Australia once gun laws were tightened beginning in 1996 and concluding in 1998 gun related homicide deaths dropped by 30% from 1997 to 1998. There was also a drop in other gun related deaths. If you interested in reading more heres the link.
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/gunaus.htm
I've got one question, when you watch the news at night and hear about another child being killed by a gun in your country, does your heart hurt some or are you just thinking about whats for dinner?