Support for Gun Control in US at its Lowest Level in More than 50 Years

[Shaka_Khan]

Who said it does?

Someone said that we have the right to bear arms because the first US government wanted the civilians to be able to rebel in case the government becomes bad.

yeah and britains violent crime rate is 2.5 times higher than the US' and the murder rate has been climbing since 1997 when the total handgun ban was enacted. American murder rates are the lowest in 20 years. i would hope a country which bans guns would have lower gun murders what a completely worthless statistic and point to demonstrate.

name one country with no gun crimes or murder.

i love people who cannot grasp the concept of zero gun crime and LESS gun crime......

I doubt you traveled much.

I have lived in NYC. My dad was robbed at gunpoint in the elevator of the building that we lived in. We moved out of NYC soon after our room got buglarized a few weeks later. We moved to a safer neighborhood in New Jersey. I watched news of at least one gun related crime in NYC each day. A lot of it was gang related and you would've noticed this if you were around in NYC or LA at that time. This was long before Gulliani became mayor of NYC and long before gun control in NYC. Even when the crime rate went down during the late 90s and the early 00s, I know of a person in San Francisco who experienced a gun related crime at that time. Imagine how much more worse it was before gun control in the major cities. Before gun control, gun related crime was happening more often in NYC at least from what I saw. The thing is that this really isn't gun control. It's hard to stop the flow of every single gun in a country that has plenty of it. The results of gun control is very different with a country like the UK. The UK has much much less gun problems than the US does. It does have crime. Now imagine if criminals owned guns in the UK. It would get a lot worse because guns make it easy for anyone to hurt someone.

What's the point of owning a gun in the US? Are you going to carry it around everywhere you go? A lot of the gun related crimes in the US happened in areas where a normal person wouldn't or wasn't allowed to carry a gun. Would you carry a gun in school or in a summer camp in the USA? No because you'd probably have the cops come over and aim at you pretty soon. The fact is that even the US of A isn't a guns-for-everywhere-for-an-innocent-civilian country. There are a lot of places in the US where you'd rather not carry a gun, but crime can still happen there. The right to bear arms hasn't protected a lot of American citizens because most Americans wouldn't own a gun. It just made it easier for a criminal to own a gun. In countries like South Korea, Japan, Singapore, etc., it's close to impossible for a criminal to own a gun. I'd really say 100% impossible because I know from what a lot of people from there told me and I have traveled to those countries for a long time. I haven't heard of a gun related crime in those countries for over a decade. Believe me, it's possible not to have a gun related crime for that long. Did you know that Cambodia banned guns? Cambodian civilians were urged to give their guns away to the government. Crime went down significantly over there. I traveled there to Angkor Wat by scooter and I felt much safer there than when I did in LA, NYC and San Francisco. The only thing I was concerned about were the mines that probably weren't found yet, but even that wasn't much of a big concern because the city areas and the tourist areas of Cambodia are safe from mines now.

Try walking the streets of Detroit or Washington D.C. I don't mean cruising around the neighborhood, making a few stops at the safer regions and return back home quickly. Then try walking the streets of Singapore, Tokyo or Seoul. You'll notice a huge difference.