Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: I'm okay with violent felons owning guns after they serve their sentence... [View all]EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)Americans can't handle guns. It's Americans + guns.
Guns at the bottom of the ocean don't kill anyone but guns in the hands of Americans kill as many people as died on 9/11 every 5-6 weeks. If that was happening in Norway they should remove guns. But it's not. Comparing the two is also nonsensical because the areas where it's required are mostly isolated and rural. In cities gun ownership is rare. If America could do that I'd be ok with it. In fact I'd also be ok with all guns in America being replace with a single shot hunting rifle. If your just obsessed with having a gun, you can have that. It would cut down on gun violence overnight. In fact if that happened and all guns had biometric safeties.. And if owners could only legally own say 5 bullets at a time (and had to return casings to buy more) then grand. Feel free.
But until the point where gun violence drops by 75 - 80% I'm not ok with guns in America. And trying to use other countries - and their ability not to massacre each other - isn't a cogent argument when America obviously can't do that.