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Originally Posted by AZN FLEA  Oh, so now it's bad for a country to pass laws which are, quite honestly, common sense in order to protect it's citisens? In a country with proper and ENFORCED law registry/control, how is a law abiding citisen harmed? And why would one want a gun anyways? They're meant to kill, and that's about it. |
Freedom.
I hate guns. I don't like shooting them, I don't like being around them, I don't even like being around police officers that carry guns. That being said, law abiding citizens are harmed by having one of their individual liberties removed.
As for what does gun control do?
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Originally Posted by The Failed Experiment: Gun Control and Public Safety in Canada, Australia, England and Wales The homicide rate has been falling as fast or faster in the United States [compared with Canada].... The homicide rate in the United States has fallen from 10.5 per 100,000 in 1991 to 6.1 per 100,000, while the Canadian rate has fallen from 2.7 per 100,000 to 1.8.
The contrast between the rate of criminal violence in the United States and that in Canada is much more dramatic. Over the past decade, the Canadian rate of violent crime has increased while, in the United States during the same time period, the rate of violent crime has slid from 600 per 100,000 to 500 per 100,000. |
What does this mean? It means gun control is not a major factor. There is an endless list of things that influence these, but gun control is not as successful as advertised, nowhere close to being successful enough to have an individual liberty removed.
Your country has had two major gun control laws over the past fifteen years, C-17 and C-68, neither has made you noticeably safer and in return for a minute increase in safety,
if any, you have lost an individual liberty.
Registry is one thing, though control, on the other hand, is seemingly useless.
I never plan to own a gun, but I don't plan on stopping anyone else from doing so.
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Originally Posted by Black~Enthusiasm Because we have enough institutions that can be used to change things aroung, such as free press, the Internet, universities, mass protests and all sort of riots, peaceful or otherwise. So we dont need armed militia composed of crazed, ignorant lunatics, nor shady, coward conspirators gathering is secrecy. |
Perhaps in an idealistic world, but the situation around you can be changed forever in an instant. As always brought up with terrorists though, one man's lunatic is another man's freedom fighter.