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Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple
I always laugh when the lunatical left in the US target pro gun movements when politically posturing, stating countries with strict gun laws have lower murder rates per 100,000 people. Yet I've just proved that if those very countries had the same population as the US, the murder rates of those countries would exceed the US, especially the UK.
In 1987 a man in Hungerford went on a gun rampage, killing 16 and wounding 15 people before killing himself. This led to even stricter gun laws in the UK. Yet nine years later a man in Dunblane went on a gun rampage killing 16 children and one adult before killing himself. And a taxi driver in Cumbria shot dead 12 people before killing himself in June of this year. Plus, of course, there was the Raoul Moat incident, in which he shot three people with a sawn off shotgun before being shot by armed police.
Those things prove strict gun laws do fuck all to prevent such incidents from happening.
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that type of events will always happen, in any society, no matter how illegal guns are. remember china? this year there was some kind of wave of lunatics going into schools and stabbing kids. you can't protect a society from insane people, but you can make it harder for them.
you only mention these kind of events as an example that strict gun laws don't work. but what abbout the gun-related accidents that happen to people, like even jon boy mentioned? don't you think those wouldn't happen as often if people weren't allowed to own guns?
oh and by the way, moat shot himself. cops didn't do it.