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In reply to the discussion: Can you imagine believing this? [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)31. no country has has gun crime like America?
use the sort function
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
BTW, did you know the worst school shootings in history, until Sandy Hook, were in Germany?
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.
Europe is a collection of a lot of countries, ethnic groups, and individuals. Oh BTW, gun sales in Germany and Austria is up 600 percent since the migrant crisis.
http://www.focus.de/finanzen/videos/aus-angst-vor-fluechtlingen-verkauf-um-600-gestiegen-diese-waffe-reissen-deutsche-den-haendlern-aus-den-haenden_id_5068963.html
Gun stores in Austria have been quickly selling out shotguns, pepper spray, and "tactial" knives. There is a backlog of permits to buy handguns and rifles. Once those are processed, the rifles and handguns will fly off the shelves just like the shotguns.
If it were the gun laws, what about countries with stricter gun laws, like Brazil and Mexico?
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If so few are capable of governing themselves how fewer still are capable of governing others?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#53
I also see a daily report of police excesses. What's a unicorn to think now?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#65
I used to think I should be allowed to own whatever I wanted so long as I kept it to myself ...
marble falls
May 2016
#21