revco wrote:
Why are americans so keen on guns?
More civilians get shot in america every year than the entire rest of the world put together.
When it makes it possible for kids to play with their parent's guns and shoot themselves or their friends, how can that be good?
Why do you see people supporting the right to bear arms after school shootings and other outrages?
It makes violent crime easier. It is easier and less frightening to point a gun at someone while robbing them. Having to use a knife makes you think about the action and consequences more. It is too easy to pull a trigger when in the grip of an adrenalin rush and is harder to survive getting shot than being stabbed.
Not trying to america-bash, just genuinely curious.
good try but major wrong. more people are shot with guns in the ME and Africa then in the US. are there a lot of gun related deaths in the US, yes. there are also a lot more violent crimes in the US then most civilized nations too. does that mean we should ban knives and cars too?
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:L0worCsFQdcJ:www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/810791.PDF+number+of+people+killed+by+cars+in+the+USA+2006&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
as proof that more people are killed by cars then guns in the US. so we should ban all vehicals from the road as they are more dangerous then guns.
get off it. guns do not kill. it requires people to SHOOT the gun in order for it to kill someone. removing guns from people who are responsible will NOT drastically reduce the number of gun deaths in the US, or any place for that matter. heck in the UK it is almost impossible to own a hand gun, yet they are used all the time to kill people there. hmm has not stopped the bad guys there from killing people with guns, so what makes you think it will stop people in the US?
get off it.