the usa culture is 1 full whit violence and close minded thinking.
Violence in the media, maybe. We don't condone actual violence to any extent. Hell, you even get in trouble for fighting back at school if you're being attacked.
Close minded isn't true so much as plain ignorance of other points of view.
add to that the arrogantsy and nationalism and this is the outcome.
I'll give you that many Americans are arrogant and nationalistic.
That doesn't mean everyone who think guns shouldn't be illegal is some redneck who lives in the south and drives a 10 year old pickup with 3 shotguns in the back and hangs antlers over their fireplace.
you call it stereotypes, i call it reallity for 50% of the americans
I live here, unlike you, and it's not 50% by any means. The "redneck" amount isn't very high, and the amount of people who are very arrogant/nationalistic is probably on the order of 5-10%. Idiots shout loudest, that doesn't mean there's more of them.
still it should be on the little news page of the paper. i always check those and i can't remember when i saw something like that last.
You could always look it up.
EVERYONE WHIT A GUN IS A CRIMINAL
People still have guns though.
if you see a gun you know the guy isn't good and you can instandly warn the police that he has a gun. and they can instantly arrest him. there is never confusion if it's a criminal or not
When are you going to see said gun? When he pulls it on you? Do you really think they'll let you call the police and wait 5-6 minutes for them to show up?
but you can defend yourself against a knife and you wont die as fast as whit a gun.
Partydevil, I've said this before many times. Not everyone can defend themselves against someone with a knife like you seem to think. Even taking a few self defense courses isn't going to change much in the heat of the moment vs someone who would really be trying to cut you with it. As for dying as fast, that depends on where you're shot/cut.
neither when everyone has a gun.
only if there are loads of guns around the probability that it will happen is much bigger.
I've pulled in statistics before so look them up if you want.
Violence/crime rates in a country are dependent primarily upon the country's economic and political stability. Whether there are guns or not does not affect that.
robbers dont shoot random people.
Exactly. So even if they have the gun, are they going to use it? Perhaps, but same goes for if they were armed with any other type of weapon.
The psychos who are out to kill people are still going to get guns/bombs/whatever to kill people. Making them illegal changes nothing.
why do you need to be the hero at all?
let them run away whit your stuff and go to the police.
I was referring to an incident like an indiscriminate shooting. It's not about "being a hero" either. You want to call others close minded? Stop thinking that there's only two sides, one where guns are illegal and everyone follows that law or one where guns are legal and everyone goes on random shooting sprees.
since uk has gun laws, the shooting incidents have lowered by over 70%
knife attacks on the other had have tripled.
-.- My point exactly. Making guns illegal does not stop crime/violence. Notice, you said by over 70%. That still means there's ~25% of the gun incidents still there. They aren't gone.
but knife attacks are less fast deadly and people can defend themself against it.
True, with a knife you can't kill as many people in a short amount of time or from a distance, and an unarmed person stands a better chance against someone with a knife than if they had a gun.
That doesn't change the fact that these incidents are
still happening despite that guns are illegal. What did making guns illegal do? It changed the weapon.
That's it. All you've done is plug one hole and watched the pressure pop open another hole of the exact same size. Anti-gun laws didn't solve anything.
In America it would have even less of an effect since there are already so many guns here and people unwilling to give them up. It would send loads of people who haven't done anything wrong to jail and make criminals the only ones armed. Disposal would cost a ton, all the new prisoners would cost a ton, police would have a ton more work to do and
none of it was necessary or helpful to begin with.I guess I'll never understand you gun lovers. Smart people like to play with words and idiots like to play with gun.
Let's clear some things up, shall we?
1) Guns aren't evil. What is done with them is done by the people using them. A gun sitting there doesn't go on a rampage randomly and shoot people.
2) Not everyone who likes guns is a redneck with 3 shotguns in the back of their pickup and shoots at whoever disagrees with them. Far from it.
3) Calling someone an idiot because they have a different point of view shows nothing but your own immaturity. Partydevil wants to always rant about America's close mindedness, but really, we aren't alone in self-righteous attitudes.
4) You're naive to think that making guns illegal will prevent violence. All it does is change the weapon and guess what? Guns still exist even if they're illegal.
