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Originally posted by dnd
I would enjoy them for recreational use i.e . shooting ranges but really i feel living in england maybe i don't understand the mentality of guns for protection at home. If guns where in theory outlawed in america (i know it won't happen and probably no one would hand over their weapons anyway) don't u think gun crime as a whole would dramatically reduce?
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If you look at the crime statistics for your own country, when guns were outlawed in England, gun crime as a whole didn't dramatically reduce. In fact the dramatically increased. That's not to say that the gun ban caused crime to increase, it could have been a factor but who knows. When Australia banned personal ownership of guns, their crime rates also increased. Meanwhile, many states in the US have been reducing gun restrictions and the rate of violent crime in the US has dropped steadily for nearly a decade. There is no need for any drastic measures for crime in the US, and no evidence that banning weapons would result in a dramatic decrease in violent crime.
To answer the thread, I have 2 handguns, a rifle, and a shotgun. They are for hunting and target shooting, but I don't really hunt anymore.