Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Can you imagine believing this? [View all]EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)no country in the world has gun crime like America. It's obviously the exception. It doesn't matter if a lot of non-violent Americans have to suffer because of a few (relatively speaking) violent people. As a society America suffers greatly because of guns. And the only reasonable solution is a complete ban.
Self-defence is not a legitimate use. Ask Europeans who suffer from almost no gun crime if they'd trade thousands of people dead at the end of a gun per year for access to guns for self-defence.
The fact that Americans feel that it's a good trade off, thousands of kids shot dead a year, 300,000 dead at the end of a gun per decade in exchange for access to a weapon of death for self-defence, is a symptom of American's inability to properly control themselves with guns.
You can believe what you want, but I live in Europe now and my kids have LITERALLY never heard of a school shooting. They can walk down the streets with zero fear of guns. I don't have to teach them about guns, because guns are not an issue in society. If you think I'd trade all of that so that I could have a gun to defend myself you'd be wildly wrong. Europeans don't want guns, Asians don't want guns... only Americans are obsessed with guns... and surprise surprise... only Americans suffer from this sort of gun violence. Unless you include third world countries.. which I assume you might do, as so many gun nuts love to justify the deaths of so many kids by comparing America to African countries.