yea we do have the 2nd amendment. and as a result we have one of the highest crime rates on the planet for a modern country.
You're making that up because you sure aren't getting it from factual data!
the US is free and the UK isn't? the UK is free from living in a world where they don't have to worry about being car jacked or home invaded or shot during a street or store robbery so in reality who actually has more freedom?
If you think people aren't carjacked, or assaulted in a great many ways in the UK, again, you're not working with facts.
the US has 10x the death rate as the UK and AU with guns so again who actually has more freedom to go anywhere or do anything without having the worry about being SHOT!
"...with guns..." being the key operative portion of your comment, there. I don't need a gun to assault another person and to batter them, rob them, etc. I can do it with my bare hands. I don't, but criminals do. Guns balance the equation between a criminal, armed or not, and his victim who is otherwise frail and incapable. Guns in this country do a lot more to STOP violent crime than to cause it. And lack of guns in UK allows crime to progress unabated.
sure, the UK has far more knife violence but you know wat happens wen a criminal pulls out a knife wen tryn to car jack someone? they jus drive away.....
and I can't remember the last time I responded to a call where a stray knife went thru someones window and killed them as I personally observed a week ago wen I seen a 58 yr old woman DEAD from a stray round to her head as she was taking a shower while criminals with GUNS were outside her apt shooting up the joint smh.
Carjackers with guns can be escaped by driving away if they are that inept at their craft. The one's who know what they're doing don't need weapons. But if you have a gun, you can still stop them.
Probably not a lot you can do to stop gangbangers, regardless. Can't take their guns away, not with legislation, that's for sure.
we need guns here cause the criminals have guns. if there were no guns in the first place like in the UK and the punishment for such was more severe no one wud giv a rats as about the 2nd amendment cause no one wud need it!
If there were no guns, criminals would have every reason to switch to other weapons or even just larger size, etc. Most rapes, for example, happen with weapons other than guns. Criminals really don't need guns but victims who have them are no longer mere victims.
Oh, waitaminnit. UK and AU both have had increases in crimes because --gasp-- victims can't stop them! It's tragic, really.
Part of the statistical data you're missing is the one where someone pulls a gun but does NOT pull the trigger and shoot, thus preventing an assault on their person.
But wait. Nobody collects that information. Bummer.
--Wag--
add a zero to that and you'll be close to number of cities I've spent time in.
I like this old lady. She's ok in my book. I hope you let her off with a warning.
