Gun Control & RKBA

I can't believe that's a serious comment.. so I'll assume it was just a joke.

The reality is that you're right, though; the only way to radically reduce our suicide rate is to confiscate guns. And if we DID do that we WOULD lower our crime rate, our murder rate AND our suicide rate. Sure even if we just took handguns.. which are owned by a small minority of Americans (25%), but are used in the majority of violent crime and almost all of gun crime (80%), we'd make such a huge impact that our heads would spin.

But we both know that Americans won't stand for that... at least not any time soon. Americans have convinced themselves that their very "freedom" is connected to guns, and ergo very few other nations are free... Of course if they went and visited these nations they'd find that not to be the case

My kids - I live in Ireland now - have never even thought about gun crime... they don't see shootings on TV - they rarely happen here and NEVER in schools - and frankly that feeling of safety is a TRUE freedom. They are free from fear and free from suspicion of their fellow citizens. They like the police - who don't have guns and don't endless shoot unarmed civilians - and are proud of their country.

Say what you will about the 2nd Amendment, but every single day I wake up happy my kids don't have to be surrounded by the gun violence i was surround by as a kid.