It's useless trying to convince the yanks that their guns are dangerous, and that they contribute vastly to the crime and homicide rates in their country. But I'll try, with some statistics!
In 2000, the United States had the sixth highest murder rate per 100000 people in the western world, being beaten out such bastions of law and order as Russia, South Africa, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. And that wasn't an anololie - it's consistently been in the top ten for years, decades even, and there's no real reason for it. People aren't fighting over resources, or out of any need to fight in the richest country on the planet. So why are there so many murders? I can think of two reasons. Number one is the wide availability of guns making it easy for an argument to escalate into murder. Of course, you might say that if an argument has escalated into murder, then the murderer probably would have found a way to kill the other person anyway, if he's that angry. So we're left with option number two, that the US is just a very angry country. Well, don't you think a country that angry should maybe try to reduce the numbers of guns their people have available to kill each other with?
Australia enacted wide ranging gun control laws after Martin Bryant went ****mix and killed 35 people in Tassie in 1997. Twelve days later, the parliament voted to bring in a huge buy back scheme that saw massive numbers of firearms removed and destroyed between July of 1996 and August of 1998. There was a decrease of almost 30% in the number of homicides by firearms from 1997 to 1998. Total homicides went down by 9% that same year, and gun related deaths by any cause (accident, suicide or homicide) reached an 18 year low. There are four times more gun related deaths per head of population in America than there are in Australia - partly because you're a bunch of crazy pricks, but there'd be a whole lot less if there weren't more guns than people in your messed up country. What can you possibly need that many guns for? And it's not just here, for the record. Canada's gun control laws between 91 and 95 led to a 30 year low for gun deaths. The UK banned handguns in 1998 (I think) and there was a 17% drop in firearm related crime in Scotland, and a 13% drop in England and Wales. And these are western countries, as close an analogue as you can get for the US, though without all the insanity and ridiculous gun culture you people have developed for yourselves. Do you think these figures are coincidence? Is there any evidence - anything at all - which supports the idea that guns prevent violent crime like you people keep saying they do? And if so, does any of it come from, say, Western Europe or New Zealand or somewhere where the crazy ****nuts in the NRA aren't funding it?
There are somewhere in the vicintiy of 300 million guns in the US, and something like 350000 reported firearm thefts every year. Firearm thefts are how guns become the supposedly more dangerous unregistered version of guns. 64% of gun owners own at least one handguns, which are the primary form of firearms used in dangerous, violent crime. Whatt he **** do you need so many handguns for? You can't hunt weith them, they're basically militarily useless, so there's no protection from tyranny or the evil returning English, and only a small percentage of those hanguns are the antique versions people pretend to claim make up the majority of civillian handguns. So what do you need them for? Protection? From the people with guns? That's circular logic, and ridiculous - if you reduced the legality of handguns, you could reduce the overall number of handguns in circulation, making it less ****ing likely that the guy creeping into your house at night would have a gun. And besides, if he has a handgun, and you have a hunting rifle trained on him, you're going to win. So use that to protect your bloody house. Keep it under the bed - it'll be just as accessible as the handgun in your draw, and probably a lot harder for your kids to kill themselves with.
You stupid ****ing yanks with your stupid ****ing guns. Grow the **** up! Dickheads!
