Gee, anyone, welcome to the Feelings thread!!!
I have read the article you posted before. Statistics are very easy to skew, and so we have decided for the sake of maintaining some semblance of order over here to disregard arguments for or against guns that are provided by pro- or anti-gun special interest groups. That includes Handgun Control, the NRA, and groups of gun merchants, who are responsible for posting the article you cited, if you follow the trail at the bottom of the page.
While it may be true at this point in America that we are so heavily armed that more guns is the answer, it seems almost insane to me. If you look at the statistics for gun deaths in countries where handguns are not allowed at all, or are very strictly regulated, you will see that overall gun deaths are incredibly lower, and isn't that the point, really?
GUN DEATHS
Gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in selected countries in 1994
United States 14.24
Brazil 12.95
Mexico 12.69
Estonia 12.26
Argentina 8.93
Northern Ireland 6.63
Finland 6.46
Switzerland 5.31
France 5.15
Canada 4.31
israel 2.91
Italy 2.44
Kuwait 1.84
Germany 1.24
England and Wales 0.41
Taiwan 0.37
Hong Kong 0.14
South Korea 0.12
Japan 0.05 |
