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Originally Posted by Geenie
No, I'm saying if weapons are freely available to the citizenry, that means "bad guys" can just as well obtain one. To me, that is common sense, and nothing else.
With regard to the statistics, I am aware that they are a highly questionable means of addressing the question of gun control. I will be grateful for any credible sources you can provide that "prove" that Britain has been artificially keeping it's violent crime rate low. In any case, I cannot possibly imagine that, proportionally, the murder rate involving firearms is even remotely comparable to that of the US.
I am completely open to being shown otherwise.
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The FBI keeps all kinds of stats and one that blows anti gun advocates out of the water is that 95.2% of all crimes in the last 10 years that had guns involved the guns were not legally obtained. That leaves 4.8% done with the legal owner.
Restricting the ownership process will not keep a crook from getting what he wants. In the last 3 years in my job we have not arrested a single person with a gun that had a license IAW state law. What does that tell you.
Yes the US is not GB but their stats are going up lately.