(...but Americans seem to have a problem when it comes to joined up thinking on guns.)
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My point is Ian is those people would kill anyway, even if there were no guns, it would be a knife, a sword, a bomb or by whatever means, there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world who own guns, 99.999% of those would do no one any harm,People with guns kill people
I don't see how its a guns fault
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If the UK adopted the American approach to allow everyone the right to bear arms (own a gun) then I would confidently bet my house on there being a major rise in gun crime.
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I take all your points @nara @IANB and I don't actually agree with the American stance
BUT ... lol
Just to put another pitch on it, I have a pretty decent Audi A4 it has ABS breaks and loads of other safety features, I can quite safely drive that car at well over 100 mph (breaking the law I know) and I can stop that car on a sixpence
Now put a Drunk driver in that same car, he ploughs into a load of pedestrians and kills and maims all of them, mass murder or driving offence ? my opinion is it would be murder, so then do we ban then cars just because an idiot decides to drive a car whilst drunk
As I said I don't agree with the American stance, but I still can't agree that an inanimate object can be held responsible for what a Human does with it
BUT ... lol
Just to put another pitch on it, I have a pretty decent Audi A4 it has ABS breaks and loads of other safety features, I can quite safely drive that car at well over 100 mph (breaking the law I know) and I can stop that car on a sixpence
Now put a Drunk driver in that same car, he ploughs into a load of pedestrians and kills and maims all of them, mass murder or driving offence ? my opinion is it would be murder, so then do we ban then cars just because an idiot decides to drive a car whilst drunk
As I said I don't agree with the American stance, but I still can't agree that an inanimate object can be held responsible for what a Human does with it
With a knife maniac, you do have a reasonable chance to run off or try to tackle them, but with an AK47 etc, a lot of people are going to fall.
"Guns don't kill people, rappers do" lol
"Guns don't kill people, rappers do" lol
if guns were banned in America, the hardware would end up somewhere, probably with the folk you would least like to own the equipment.
It would be difficult clean up America and change attitudes. maybe a couple of generations...
It would be difficult clean up America and change attitudes. maybe a couple of generations...
The hardest part would be to agree a consistent interpretation of the Second Amendment.
