Moondog55 wrote: Why the USA and not all those other countries with high murder rates and high rates of firearms possession?
Moondog55 wrote:But it can't Wayno We here have no constitutional rights whatever, dunno about EnZeds constitution
Moondog55 wrote:I get that but why do we continue to think it has any bearing on us, tiny little second world country at the bottom of the globe
Avatar wrote:Over 15,00 people are murdered in the US each year. If America's armies were experiencing this level of attrition the media would be broadcasting body bags and funerals and all the usual suspects would be protesting in the streets. Kind of ironic.
highercountry wrote:That's good enough for me. Get rid of them. There is no need for firearms in a modern and sophisticated society. Law enforcement, defence, farming and some private security ops excepted. Civilised people don't carry guns.
I grew up in the country as a kid with a .22 and a 410 shotgun. They were handed-in decades ago. I don't need them, want them or miss them.
Gun control and restriction works. John Howard"s 1996 reforms were a brave act, the only decision of his I have ever admired.
Lophophaps wrote:Switzerland has a lot of guns but minimal gun crime
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 30606.html
"The country has about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation of 8.3 million people. In 2016, the country had 47 homicides with firearms. The country's overall murder rate is near zero."
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