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Tom G (tomg@bnr.ca) wrote:


: Guns can never be completely eliminated.  But many societies have 
: significantly reduced their criminal use by minimizing availability.
:   

Sure, just like Switzerland where virtually every household has handguns 
AND assualt rifles in them.  This is due to their law that ALL citizens 
there have to be a part of the militia and is allowed to be armed.  YET, 
they have one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world.  

Of course one can make a case that some countries have very little crime 
and yet laws aginst guns.  Hmmm....  I wonder why?   Could it be that there 
is a difference in the cultures( "societies" ) than ours here in the good 
old USA?  

When are you guys ever going to wake up and realize that guns are not the 
problem but the society (culture) that uses them.  If you do not think 
this is so, then I will challenge you to a very simple test.  On a hot 
summer Saturday night let me take you into a blue-collar "red neck" 
neighborhood where I know virtually every household has at least one 
gun if not an arsenal in it.  Heck, you can see the guns, lots of them 
are on racks in plain sight through the back window of the pick up 
truck.  Okay, got the picture.  Now on the same night lets go cruse 
around in the intercity.  Which neighborhood are you going to feel the 
MOST uncomfortable in?  Which neighboorhood are you going to roll you 
windows up and lock your car doors when you come to a stop light.  
Both of the neighborhoods are armed to the hilt with guns.  Which one 
do you REALLY think you will get shot at from a gun.

Now, when you get to really passing all these laws on banning guns, 
any gun, it does not matter the type, which neighborhood are you going 
to go into and ask them to turn in their gun?  Which culture is 
going to comply with the law on gun registration and/or seizure?

You guys can debate this gun law  registration / seizure / 
non-manufacture until you are blue in the face.  It is like 
spitting in the wind.  It just is not going to get any better.  
You are trying to treat the symtoms instead of the cause.  It is 
the violent PERSON behind the gun that is at fault.  You don't ban 
automobiles because certain people keep driving while 
intoxicated.  Prevention is better than the cure.  Start putting 
your energies into looking at the type of person that uses guns.  

I can support this with hard statistics and scientific proof.  If you are 
not interested in the facts then continue on believing in a myth.