Shootings

[thousandsmasque]

Bullets are funny things, aren't they? It only takes one to end a life. So if one person, untrained and mentally unstable goes out with one, how many lives can s/he end in one go? S/he's limited only by how many in the chamber and how many reloads carried on hand. What kind of mental distress does someone have to be in to make a decision like

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[thousandsmasque]

Case in Point:

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=At+least+nine+shots+fired+in+Uptown+Tavern+shooting&articleId=3f434d17-3fe9-4c81-93c1-394cef76a80b

[kouriarashi]

Your post reminds me of an Arrogant Worms song. "And nobody would ever got shot, 'cause everybody would have a gun!"

A quote from an equally interesting article...

"Gun crime is extremely rare in Britain, and handguns are completely illegal. The ban is so strictly enforced that Britain’s Olympic pistol shooting team is barred from practicing in its own country.

Britain’s 46 homicides involving firearms was the lowest total since the late 1980s. New York City, with 8 million people compared to 53 million in England and Wales, recorded at least 579 homicides last year."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18149774/

[kimuracarter]

I honestly don't know what side of this argument to be on. How has Britain so successfuly enforced this ban? I feel that the same measure would not be so effective in this country. It would deprive innocent people of the right to defend their lives. I think. :-\

[anonymous]

Should just be noted before using Britain as an example, that their entire procedure for collecting statistics (the BCS) on crime has fallen under suspicion in recent years as using faulty methods and having incorrect data. While it's true that their crime rate has, in fact, dropped. "It found 12.9 million crimes had been committed in England and Wales in 2000 - equivalent of 24 a minute - almost double the figure suggested in the Met snapshot." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2042634.stm... )