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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
Sadly, a person who is irrational......they are the same regardless of guns, cars, ect. If they truly want to die or kill / hurt someone else, they will find a way to make it happen!
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It's a bit more difficult with a knife. It's much harder to kill someone with a knife, actually. They can defend themselves better too, it's more risky for the murderer. Generally, a person who is stabbed has a lot more chance to survive. It's much easier to get caught if you stab someone as well, a lot harder to get away.
We must not forget killers are cowards in general, the easier the more likely they are to do it.
Please look at those UK statistics... does that mean british people are less murderous than americans by nature? I don't think so.
Even the law admits that people kill in the heat of a moment, without premeditiation or even the intention to kill. Guns just make it easier for those things to happen. Out of fear, desperation, rage.
To say that most people are capable of being balanced enough to carry a gun is to ignore human nature. So, no I'm not saying you can make people less violent, I'm saying you need to stop making it easy for violent people.
I know what guns can do, I know how much power they have. Just look at the drug situation in Rio, Colombia or Mexico, these people can only victimize and take control because they can get hold of guns, which sadly come mostly from the US. If you don't get gun control, these people are gonna carry on dying. If you talk about places like that and say you'll give citizens the right to buy guns you'll be looking at CIVIL WAR.
And that's the reality you can't see up there in the US, how much your gun industry is ruining the lives of many people in other countries. Don't tell me they would do that anyway because they are criminals: you can't imagine drug dealers taking control of communities, cities or even countries without their SUPER POWERFUL MODERN GUNS that someone is profitting over. The police goes there with their guns too and starts shooting people, they shoot back and it's an endless cycle of death.
You cannot stop that without reviewing the gun industry and gun control in the US. A lot of these guns used in Mexico were purchased legally in the US at one point.
You can't find realiable stats on the net easily: every single website is being blatantly sponsored by the industry. It's big business, and they don't care it's usually the poor dying anyway.
So I guess I'll give up because most of you are not interested in the other side of the story.