Quote Originally Posted by ATrain
What about the UK? Haven't they proven that taking guns away from the general public can drastically reduce firearm related deaths?
I'm not sure what the rates are. I usually hear mixed reports, some nations with total gun control having lower gun-death rates, some having higher. But I would rather look at the overal murder rate. I often here gun-death numbers touted as though if guns weren't available, all 50,000 people that were killed with guns wouldn't have been murdered. But I'm sure many of those murders would have been carried out by other means if the guns weren't available. How many? Unfortunately, that's impossible to find out.
Gandalf_The_Grey Reviewed by Gandalf_The_Grey on . The great gun-control debate So, I'm interested to hear all your opinions on gun policy at a national level; whether you be Canadian, American, or whatever. I peronally believe that people should have the right to own guns. Putting an outright ban on them, as many people support, would IMO only arm the criminals and leave the general public defenseless. Too often I've seen failed policies (in law, and especially schools) that rely on de-clawing everybody with the false notion that you can actually control the entire Rating: 5