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While your average policeman in the UK doesn't carry a gun. plenty do - I walk past half a dozen carrying Glocks every day. But then I do work 100yds from New Scotland Yard :)Originally posted by Brophog
Brittain is still in Europe though, right. I'd take that as atleast being factual of policemen in Europe not carrying guns
Gun crime is on the rise over here, but still nowhere near the levels of the USA. I'm glad firearms (except small calibre target pistols and shotguns) are banned - it cuts off another potential source of supply to criminal elements and eliminates the "child kills brother with father's handgun" horror stories completely.
Fact is, having a weapon that can kill at distance with a pull of a trigger in the house means that there's a good chance someone is going to get hurt eventually......and it's statistically more likely to be the owner or a member of his/her family than it is a burglar.sigpic
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I may not be discussing anything with Raehl anymore, but I will correct you Gadget. Guns are statistically more likely to hurt owners, because in that statistic, they count suicides just like intentional or accidental shootings. It creates a grossly inflated number. Take out those, and you have a much less frightening number.
The same tactic is used when quailing about all of the children killed by guns. They count children as all the way up to eighteen yeards old. And they include gang and drug murders. Take out those false children and criminals, and you have more drowning in buckets and tubs each year, than die by guns.<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
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"Who are the Militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress have no power to disarm the Militia. Thier swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American. The Unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of Federal or State governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."
Tenche Coxe, the Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788
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If you really look at the numbers broken down, somewhat less than 3 percent of all deaths accredated to firearms in the USA are committed with theuse of a REGERSTED firearm. This taking out all of the accedental deaths where Joe idiot left his revolver loaded under the pillow for little Johnny to pick up and play cowboys and indians. But enough of the rhetoric here. I have owned and shot pistols, rifles and shotguns competivly and enjoy the sport of paintball. Will the government ever take my firearms, What do you think, am I a gun nut, if beliving that it is my right to protect myself, my family and my home, you dang skippy I am. Another thing to think about is that look at the big city of Chicago, it is aganst the law to own a handgun and they are the murder capital of the US with about 600 murders a year. The state of New Hampshire has the lowest murder rates and it is a state where everyone is allowed to carry a conceled weapon. And call it a marker all you want, it is a Gun by the definition of a gun and the government if it decides to ban Guns will probablly not make acceptions. Your precious paintball GUN will be as illigal as any of my 1911 Colts, Shotguns or Rifles.Gman63Comment
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