In ireland and the uk, we have no guns. all guns are banned.
In the US, we are still free - more or less...
We are not afraid to walk the streets or feel the need to carry weapons to 'save our familys' this is because in the 6 in 1 million chance that some one did break into our homes, we would be safe in the knowlage that they too, would not be armed.
Explain to me how someone who is ALREADY PLANNING TO BREAK THE LAW is going to refrain from aquiring a black market gun...because its against the law? What are YOU going to do when you are old, sick, injured, recovering from surgery, a child, or a woman, and the burglar doesn't NEED a gun - he can just man-handle you?
If guns are illegal and also very hard to get then not even petty crimanals can get one,
That has worked SO WELL with prostitution, alcohol, drugs, switchblade knives...NOT!
so if someone has a gun they are arrested immediatly and there is no harm done.
You honestly assert that ALL bad guys in the Republic of Ireland are arrested BEFORE they break the law? That your crime rate is ZERO? What - do you have Mistress Cleo on your police force?
we almost never hear about major robberies or homocide on the news, because if someone trys to rob a bank wiht only a knife, its likely that he wont do any more harm then a minor stab wound before he is caught.
A knife, (or club, or fist) can kill you just as dead as a bullet.
If there are guns lying around the house your children are at a huge risk. kids are curious, if you say 'NEVER touch that' they arnt listening. or at least they eventually stop listening.
The accidental death rate for children from firearms is small and has been going down for twenty years. Bicycles, pools, and five gallon buckets present a greater threat to American children than guns. Statistics that at first glance seem to indicate otherwise are slanted by including 16, and 17 year-old gang-bangers shooting each other up as "children" whose death is "firearms related", a sophistry I'm sure you wouldn't want to be fooled by.
or if somone is feeling a bit deppressed or angry (we all do occasionly) you are doing the worst thing possibe; arming them..
Police and soldiers get depressed and angry all the time, yet are trusted with weapons. If you have so little self-control that you can't be trusted with a firearm, you shouldn't have an automobile, kitchen knive, straight razor, or Drano, either. You should be put away.
we dislike our govenment in ireland too, we watch then like hawks and tease every mistake, but thyre ususally just listening to the majority.
So what can you do if they STOP listening? Over here, we can do something!
the movie bowling for colombine is one to watch, even if micheal does try and streach somt things to far. guns are rarely used for protecting anything. only for killing.
That's simply not true. Guns are used for protection over 2 million times a year in this country, usually without a shot ever being fired. Why do you think police and security guards have them?
if you have a gun then your attack will too, it just depends whose fastest, and hes the one with no moral consience.
If someone is attacking me or my family, I no longer have am obligation moral or otherwise to the attacker - even the animals in the fields have horns, teeth and claws - everyone, and everything has the right to try to defend themselves. Plus you conveniently ignore the case where the attacker has a gun ANYWAY, and I don't -
isn't it better to have the time to run or call the police then have blood on your hands or pumping from the fresh hole in your chest?
Where I live, there are some COUNTIES that would rival your ENTIRE COUNTRY in size - sometimes with only 2 to 4 officers to patrol thousands of square miles. Even in the cities it can take 20 minutes to an hour for the police to arrive - by the time they get there, that "fresh hole" won't be so fresh. I have a bad knee - I'm not going to out-run most bad guys, nor should I have to! Few crooks will stand there and let you make a cell phone call, either - they usually TAKE the phone!