Re: NASA victim needed firearm counterforce - but didn't have it

On Apr 23, 1:58 pm, ExTraj <ExT...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
Jason, hate it as much as you want, but we live in a country full of
guns--over a quarter billion of them. The overwhelmingly vast
majority of them are used productively, and banning the law-abiding
from carrying them does nothing to stop the criminal. Twenty years
ago, Britain's violent crime rate was a tiny fraction of the U.S.'s
Still, they completely banned handgun ownership in Februrary 1998--and
immediately their violent crime rate skyrocketed. Today, it's HIGHER
than ours (even gun crimes!), something utterly inconceivable two
decades ago.

How about some citations to support that assertion? The UK has banned
guns for much longer than 10 years, IIRC, and sc's post disagrees with
you about how many shooting victims there are.

In addition, snopes.com has comments about the *Autstralian* gun ban
-- careful study shows that a first year blip amounted to doubling the
rate -- that is, from a handful to a double handful -- and then long
term the rate dropped.

And if no one is chasing me with a gun, why would I need a gun to stop
him?

/dps

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