\ Then in the mid 90's a man called Martin Bryant walked out of his home one day, with his (legal) gun and shot dead 35 people, men women and children.
Let me guess, you guys didn't allow concealed or open carry at the time?
Yeah, he shoulda got the death country. A man goes a shooting spree so you cange your gun laws but not your death penatly laws. Strange country you have there.
after that, we decided that guns were not worth the problems they cause and since then, violent crime has dropped.
So? Have anything to back this up besides correlation? You're an island with a low population, it;s not like other factors can;t have signifigant impact on crime there.
Americans own guns because they fear attack (bar the odd sports shooter that does not have a obsession with personal safety).
LOL. This is straight out of one of those "Gun controlers must believe...." humor lists.
"That we must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time, and anyone who owns a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid."
I dont fear that at all. I use to live in the most violent 1st world country on the planet (as decided by the UN) and i didnt feel a need to arm myself.
Whaere did you live? The US? How long were you here for, a week in rural Texas? Not everone here goes around armed.
Was it England if not the USA?
Regardless, why dhould what yuo feel determine what others feel? Lots of people just like being prepared and realize they are unlikley to need a gun, but that when you need a gun you need a gun
now.
If someone knows what they're doing, wants you dead and they have a gun.............the gun you carry wont mean a thing.......you'll be shot before you know you're in danger.
Same thing with any weapon. You don't think someone would have less difficulty slitting your throat or whacking you on the head before you coudl respond? "guns are not magic anti-crime charms, therfore they should be banned"?
if you think he could have walked down the street and killed 35 people with a piece of rope (or a knife for that matter) you need your heads checked.
Why not? If no one fought him he could have.
if the American government and largely its people, truely believe in the 'guns dont kill people, people kill people' argument..................................then why go into Iraq sighting WMD's as the prime reason? If Saddam wanted to kill people, he could have done it with his bare hands right? he didnt need nukes.
You really misunderstand the pro-gun argument don't you?
It's people who use the weapons right? And Bush was claiming Saddam had and was was willing to use those weapons.
And yes, our government is hypocritical, but it's not like yours isn't. You sentenced that Bryant guy to LWOP becasue you don;t believe in the Death Penalty for even such a crime, and yet you have a military posied to shoot, burn and blow up people for wearing the wrong patch on their sleeve.
a horrible said:
how would you feel if Al Quida got their hands on WMD's? it wouldnt matter right? nothing worse could be done with them then could be done with a knife right?
We are aware WMD =/= knife.
And al-queda has already shown a knife can do just as much damage as a WMD.
Al-queda shouldn't have any weapons, whether a swiss army knife or ICBM.
oh and for the record..............combat knifes should be banned too. i'm not sure what the law in America is, but in Australia and the rest of the sane world, stabbing people is illegal.
..because you can't stab someone with a kitchen knife? How about hunting knives? They're pretty much the same thing as combat knives. Or do you mean the weird "fighting" knives they sell on TV? I see nothing wrong with people being allowed to buy those , (although they really shouldn't. They're just silly).
And I don't know about there, but here you can knife someone in self defense.