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| Topic: Violent Crime Increased When Countries Banned Guns | |
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When you commit a crime or try to commit one, your right to be protected ends right there.....if you get shot and die, that's your own fault, should have thought about that consequence before you decided to do whatever you were trying to do. It is sad it happens that way at times? Yes, but the person brought it on themselves when they tried to commit the crime in the first place. Don't wanna die, then don't do the crime simple as that. Is it crude? Maybe so, but why should we be at all sympathetic to someone who chose to rob or steal? They made the mistake, so they need to deal with it. In Britain you can get put in jail for shooting a home invader and the home invader can sue you for injuries. Its ridiculous. Personally, I like the "make my day" law in Colorado. Yep; we have the same laws as Britian in that your attacker or the family of the attacker can sue you if you kill him while he is breaking in your home. However; that doesn't seem to be slowing people down from defending themselves here. LOL Plus Canada and Alaska State both have HUGE man eating bears. Mace does not stop them. Plus they will barge into your house. So how do you stop one? BEAR REPELLANT? You are former Military, I know how you would deal with it... Maximum Firepower! Even with my HOTTEST slug loads in my .12 gauge I would be LOATH to have to defend myself with it from some of those bears! I would have to wait until it is uncomfortably close and likewise I would feel the gun at hand would be a little too light to stop that bear! Even a 30.06 would feel a little small. Some Kodiak bears have reached over 1200 lbs. That is about 600kilos. You cannot discount guns at all as useful tools. And yet people try to. I think far too many people not only fear guns but that fear becomes ignorance. I have seen women who were scared to be around guns go to a shooting range and suddenly they own at least one if not two. The UK goes by a different understanding in that "the government" is responsible, and that we all have to go by what they say. In America we have a built in fail safe to prevent a government acting as it sees fit. It isn't fool proof but at least we have it. Notice how a country with an armed population stands between YOUR nation and Mexico? Now imagine if Mexico had an open boarder with Canada. What problems would you inherit? You would have every latter day Pancho Villa doing raids with guns across your boarders. You might want to look up American history in the west around the period of 1900 to 1920. Mexican crime raids were COMMON back then. We just seem to conveniently as Americans forget that little bit of history with them. So about our citizens having guns... Like anything there is always a downside... but the upside outweighs the downside. Andy; I think if it works for people in the States to own guns; I say go with what works for you. I personally don't fear guns; I just fear the people that own them as tehre are some very dangerous people out there even without guns. I guess its hard to weed out those who simply shouldn't have weapons of any sort; so you take your chances and hope that person doesn't go postal. Incidentially; we don't get a lot bears running around here in Calgary; but we do seem to get lots of coyotes, deer, and yes the odd moose on the road. 
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