Re: RU486 will make us muslim
transcendent said:
With the gun thing. If I don't see it I wont need it. If however, guns were freely avaliable I may find it curious to try one. So I go into a gun store, buy one cause they are avaliable. Within a month I would have 10 murders under my name. Why? Cause they are avaliable. I mean, after one murder why stop at just the one? I'm going to jail anyways. However with the current system it's really hard to find guns. You don't see stores for them, you don't see ads for them, they are non-existant to the general public. BUT if guns are more prevalent, people will take an interest in them, people get curious. People get scared and buy them and soon there'll be guns anywhere and psychos like me will have access to them. So please, for the sake of everyone else, keep the guns off the market.
i agree, i mean, by not having it legal, no one has access to it. i mean, just look at how theres no issue with any illegal drugs.
australia, does have one big advantage over the u.s., though, in that, like i said before, the u.s. has two very large borders...its a lot harder to control things coming in and out so bans can be more successful. The thing is, though.....well, lets take a match-up....say, a woman, light build, vs a male robber, probably sturdy build. if both are unarmed, who wins? most often, the larger male.
its possible that the male could have a gun...he still has advantage.
however, if the woman has a gun, and is trained to use it, she can't defend herself.
criminals aren't idiots...they don't mess with people who might have guns...and i've heard reports where even mentioning that someone is carrying a gun has gotten would-be robbers to leave.
the idea is....a criminal doesn't want to get shot. if they try to attack someone who has a gun, the criminal will run.
Plenty of americans manage to get up the nerve to confront burglars etc. with a gun. For that matter I don't think the burglar exactly has a surge of courage when he hears a shotgun being racked back. If your an old person living alone a gun is your only viable protection. Cops usually arrive after a crime has occured.
aside from mentioning the story earlier about direct use of a gun for defense, yeah, cops are very slow.
I've had issues where we've tried calling Los Angeles police and its taken cases of over an hour for them to show up.
and regarding my statement with the state of Florida...found more info on that, unfortunitly its a site reporting it rather than orginial source
http://www.justfacts.com/gun_control.htm
221,443 concealed carry licenses were issued in Florida between October of 1987 and April of 1994. During that time, Florida recorded 18 crimes committed by licensees with firearms.
so, i'm off by 8. my bad.
