Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
6 dead people should have no more bearing on gun rights than one dead person.

I AM FULLY AWARE GUNS CAN BE USED TO MURDER PEOPLE AND I STILL THINK WE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO OWN THEM. NO AMOUNT OF SOB STORIES WILL CHANGE MY MIND BECAUSE IF I WAS THE SUSEPTIBLE TO SUGGESTION IN THE FIRST PLACE I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO VOTE
And what of one and a half million dead Americans since the end of the Vietnam war?

We need to run industrial deathcamps in Europe to reach those levels of civilian casualties.

I realise the gun debate in America is over. The gun lobby has won. Perhaps in a generation or two sanity can be restored again. For now, I am happy if we can keep America's gun culture from exporting itself.

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England has very strict gun control laws. France much less so. America hardly any. The effect:



Gun Homicide (per 100,000)

Japan 0.03
Singapore 0.07
Taiwan 0.15
Kuwait 0.34
England/ Wales 0.07
Scotland 0.19
Netherlands 0.27
Spain 0.19
Ireland 0.30
Germany 0.21
Italy 1.16
Sweden 0.18
Denmark 0.23
Israel 0.72
New Zealand 0.22
Australia 0.56
Belgium 0.87
Canada 0.60
Norway 0.36
Austria 0.42
Northern Ireland 3.55
France 0.55
Switzerland 0.46
Finland 0.87
USA 6.24

Rates of firearms deaths for most countries are from:

United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
International study on firearm regulation (revised). Vienna: United
Nations, 1997.[tables 2.7, 6.2 and 7.1].