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Originally Posted by Sai";p="
It's because guns are not essential. You don't need a gun to live safely in your house, if you feel unsafe then they are many alternatives.
Dog
Alarms
Baseball bat 
Taser (however you spell it)
Mace/Pepper spray
Go to the gym 
And heres something else, more gun inflicted murders are commited in your average American state per year than in the Western Europe. |
Yes, but did you know that gun crime-rates jumped in australia, canada and the UK right after successive gun-control laws were passed in each? And that the crime rate overall in the US has risen steadily since the gun control act was passed in the 1960s no matter how many more gun control laws were passed?
The fact is, I could kill you with a rock, stick, rope, kitchen knife, the list goes on. Even if you were able to remove every gun on earth you couldn't reduce crime, because both the people who use guns defensively and those who use them offensively would now have to turn to chair legs and barbed wire.
The only real difference is that now we would lack the ability to defend ourselves, we would have to rely on the dubious efficiency of law enforcement, and we would lose the capability to rebel against a corrupt or evil government.
The fact is, 99.9% of civilian-owned firearms in the US will not be used to commit a violent crime this year, and 99.6% of Civilian-owned handguns will not be used to commit a crime this year.
Gun control is the tool of the totalitarian to rule the masses with an iron-fist. "Any who intend to rule a people must first disarm them" - Niccolo Machiavelli
"Those who turn Swords into plowshares will do the plowing for those who do not"
- Anon
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed--unlike citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
James Madison
"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which... historically has proven to be always possible."
United States Senator Hubert Humphrey
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed."
Noah Webster, author, An American Dictionary of the English Language
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
Ceasare Beccaria, 18th century criminologist