ganeshaRules wrote:
Zad wrote:
True. Something in Americans' blood makes them far more capable of killing than the rest of the world. Still, banning guns would be a good start.
According to "Bowling for Columbine", Paranoia.
Yeah, I agree, banning guns and made a lot hard to get one, for criminal and no criminal too, would be a good start. Here in Europe it works.
Europeans don't understand how America works in relation to gun crimes. You think because it works for your mostly white, small countries that it will work in a very diverse and large country. That's not the case. Who commits most of the gun crimes here? Non-whites, mainly, and especially blacks. You don't have that to deal with in Europe on the scale that Americans do, but it IS a factor- one that cannot be overlooked. Allowing citizens to have guns, whether because they collect them, hunt with them, or want to have it for self-defense, does not really contribute to the crime rate. People who can legally obtain weapons and do so legally are not the people you need to be worried about committing crimes with them. It's the people who are getting them illegally that you have to worry about. And you could ban gun ownership here and there would still be criminals obtaining guns illegally and using them to commit crimes.
If you can't trust your neighbour to use his gun responsibly, then move somewhere else. People say I'm paranoid, but I'm not the one who's demanding the government take away people's guns because I can't trust my neighbour not to go on a shooting rampage with his gun collection. :roll:
People in Europe watch too much Michael Moore.