I gave you official UN statistics... you gave me list of HOMICIDES moron.
If your overall murder rates are as far off as your gun murder rates are, adjusting for that puts UK more or less on par with the US. not
it does not. US has 5x more murder in general and 600 times more gun kills....
Any statement in support of banning guns is shortsighted and naive. IT WORKS EVERYWHERE
Europe is also a bad comparison because many of the nations in Europe have significantly more crime per capita than the United States do. Note 'Per Capita.' The graph in the link offers both; US is the highest in total number of crimes but also has a significantly larger population than the European nations. Disclaimer: Data in link is from 2002
You cannot compare general crime because that is state of law. Many things that are considered crime in the UK are not crime in the US...
Why don't you compare murder rates? Gun kills? Last time I checked US had 600x more gunkills than UK...
statistics are done per 100 000 people so the overall population does not matter. Strict gun law does equals less dead people. It always does and every where.
Because otherwise US would have to be the safest place on Earth with lowest crime rates ....
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/
Imagine a country whose constitution enshrined the right to own poisonous snakes, and had widespread poisonous snake ownership. Imagine this country had a problem with high fatalities due to poisonous snake bites well in excess of other similar countries.
Then imagine this country, and it's well-funded lobby of poisonous snake breeders and owners arguing that the high rate of fatal poisonous snake bites were due to (a) poor snake handling techniques, or (b) violent video games, or (c) drugs and urban gangs, or (d) some other ludicrous reason.
Then imagine this same coalition of pro-poisonous snake owning lobbies went on TV and said the problem was insufficient poisonous snake ownership, or too many restrictions on poisonous snake ownership, or insufficient enforcement of existing laws around poisonous snake ownership. And then rubbishing studies that correlated high rates of poisonous snake ownership with high rates of fatalities due to poisonous snake bites.
No, It says and I quote "Their findings, published Wednesday in the prestigious American Journal of Medicine, debunk the historic belief among many people in the United States that guns make a country safer, they say. On the contrary, the US, with the most guns per head in the world, has the highest rate of deaths from firearms, while Japan, which has the lowest rate of gun ownership, has the least."...
I see that you are living in denial...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/
I hoped that because I was talking about "17th century" that you realize that I WAS SARCASTIC. There is no way how to fight government, so rifles are pointless, because guess what... you cannot shot down rocket, drone or helicopter by rifle....
There is only one reason to take away the guns of civilians and allow the government agencies to use them, and that is to conquer the citizens.
Yes we live in 17th century when governments do not have tanks, jets, bomber, rockets, submarines, ships drones...
now is everybody safe, it's rifle against rifle .... moron.
There is no reason why civilians should be able to buy/own large calibres, large clips, silencers, special ammo or automatic weapons. Drunks are same as any other drug addicts. Mentally ill ... In more civilised countries strict gun laws works.
You are brainwashed by weapons lobby. To buy more and more, and more .....
Why not to allow civilians to own mortars, RPGs, chemical weapons? ...for self defence off course... 2nd amendment ... so?
