Would you live in a country that banned guns?

@RodionRomanovitch they just aren’t publicized

@BlueRain Wow , that's amazing ..... how do they manage to keep stuff like that a secret ?

@RodionRomanovitch I don’t have the answer other than the media. Lol

@Jahosijhs [quote]...police don't shoot first then ask questions later...[/quote]
Jean Charles de Menezes.

Also, only legal guns are strictly controlled. Criminals still have them.

@Sharon Some criminals do that's true. But they know if they're caught they go to jail for life.

@Sharon Gun control is not a panacea against gun crime, and there is never such a thing as perfect safety. But one of the effects that's seen over and over in countries with gun control is that black market prices skyrocket. Economics of gun running are not like things work with drugs - and high prices literally put guns out of reach of [i]most[/i] criminals.

End result is that very few criminals have guns, and they tend to be part of organized crime - and while of course that's not a comfortable thought, by and large they do not target regular folks.

As things stand, there are around 1000 illegal guns in circulation in the UK, and most gun crime is actually committed with non-functioning replicas. Criminals are down to the bare dregs.

[quote]When police on a weapons raid swarmed a housing project after London’s 2011 riots, they seized a cache of arms that in the United States might be better suited to “Antiques Roadshow” than inner-city ganglands. Inside plastic bags hidden in a trash collection room, officers uncovered two archaic flintlock pistols, retrofitted flare guns and a Jesse James-style revolver.[/quote]

They've only had one mass shooting since the ban went into the effect, and casualties were limited by the perpetrator's shitty weapon. England and Wales average, like, 50-60 gun deaths a year, around one per million of the population. We have about six times their population, but 160 times more firearm deaths.

So yeah - "Criminals still have them" needs one hell of a qualifier.

@flipper1966 I just can't understand why they won't do anything about anything.

@SW-User The gun owners have a lot of political influence. They donate huge sums of money to politicians.

@flipper1966 Oh I see.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/hungerford_massacre

@Picklebobble2 Yup, tragic.

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In Canada, we use a pitch fork through the neck of unwanted neighbors. Even more effective if thrown like a javelin in the dark-of-night whist hiding behind the barn. A pitch fork launched from a cross-bow however, is totally illegal in Canada though most commonly practiced apparently, as evidenced in most domestic homicide investigations.

@stephanie19 Yep! Ever since Mad old Bryant shot all those people in Port Arthur. We had our one massacre, put things in place and haven't had another one since. America could learn ALOT from us lot.

@Allelse The US should follow Australia's example. Sadly, we never will. There are too many gun nuts and too many politicians bought and paid for by the NRA.

@windinhishair Good lad! Nice to hear some good sense for a change.

People who hunt rarely cause problems and neither do farmers@SW-User

@stephanie19 And almost all countries with strict gun control make allowances for those people. People in Australia, etc also farm and hunt - and if you can demonstrate the need for it, you can get a semi-auto as well.

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@sassypants When guns are fantastically expensive, common criminals can no longer afford them. End result, far less people die.

And you know, there is still the police.

@yeronlyman What country?

@flipper1966 Ireland... after the revolution and civil war a gun amnesty was brought in in 1925 to reduce guns as there were many after the war of independence (against Britain) and the civil war...