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wayne
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Province/State: Arizona
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firearms rights
May 1, 2012
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The ultimate question would it be safer in the United states with or without fire arms. from the
information I have seen that anywhere from 100,000 or more crimes are stopped due to firearms. In
2010 600 accidental firearms deaths occurred but in proportion its vastly out weighed when you have
the 11,000 or so that where killed by homicide by firearms .Most research that i found showed that
80% of guns from crimes are obtained illegally.
I would really enjoy others thoughts!!!
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Jennifer
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Re: firearms rights
May 4, 2012
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It's not my place to say what is or isn't proper for the USA. The right to bear arms is embedded in
your constitution, and the weapons manufacturers who control many politicians over there make sure
it stays that way.
All I can say is that, we would not want to relax our firearms controls in Great Britain.
We do have firearms crime here, that is not disputed. More gangs are turning to guns for street
conflicts, but they use them amongst themselves in rival gang feuds and it rarely impacts on the
community in general (although there have been some tragic instances of innocent people being caught
in crossfire. It is still very rare, though).
I think the problem of gun ownership is largely one of perception. If I ask myself: Why would I, a
British citizen, want to own a gun..? There is no reason that I can think of.
However if I lived in the US, I might think I needed one because other people have them and I must
defend myself. There's the difference.
Where I live, the general population do not have guns and therefore nobody lives in fear of them.
It is true that there could be a rifle wielding maniac about to run berserk in the high street, but
that's an extremely unlikely scenario and is not worth arming myself 24/7 for.
If the gun laws here were relaxed, that could make people think differently. For a start, there
would be a section of society who see the gun restrictions abolished and think: "Hey, the
government says its ok to have a gun. I'm going to go out and buy one".
Sending out that sort of message to the public would be an extremely irresponsible and dangerous
thing for any government to do.
Then, when a certain section of society owns guns, then others may start to become concerned enough
to believe that, actually, they DO need to arm themselves in self defence. This is cause and
effect.
In this way, weapons on the street would proliferate and it would inevitably lead to shootings that
would simply never have been possible when the citizenry were unarmed.
It is probably impossible to disarm the American people. Guns are a part of your society and you
have to live with them. If you're comfortable with that, then who am I to argue..?
But we don't want mass gun ownership in this country. People who don't have guns, can't shoot
anybody.
It's that simple.... it really is.
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