> I will send it out when I am done. > > But one of the best ones I saw, was that gun crime has > increased 200% in Britain since the addition of the stronger > gun laws about 15 years ago.
Here's quote from the "www.thenewamerican.com" (a conservative news/information web site). This quote uses Britain's lower-than-the-US violent crime rate as a defense of fewer gun control laws. (The quote is old however - from 1994 I think, so things may have change dramtically since then). "Kleck notes in Point Blank the many flaws in equating crime and the availability of guns in the U.S. with other countries. Kleck notes that it is true, for instance, that Great Britain "does indeed have both stricter gun laws and less homicide than the United States," but "Britain's rates of knife homicide and of killings with hands and feet are also far lower than the corresponding rates in the United States," and "no one is foolish enough to infer from these facts that the lower violence rates were caused by a lower rate of knife ownership in Britain, or to the British having fewer hands and feet than Americans." Great Britain "had far less violence than the United States long before it had strict gun laws," and "England's homicide rate relative to that of the United States was the same or even slightly worse after fifty years of strict gun control." He's basically arguing that the Brits are just generally less violent so it doesn't matter what you control. I just love the inference: a country with low crime proves that we should have guns and a country with high crime proves that we should have guns. I do agree, however, that availability of weapons is not really the root answer. Violence is a cultural, not technological or availability issue. I do also think however that Americans are wrong about the reasons they feel they need guns. There are several valid reasons to have guns, but for the most part it seems like Americans are just scared of everything: we have to defend our families against the government/the criminals/the foreigners/the liberals/the terrorists/the poor/and so on and so on. We're a very scared people and I think that those fears are the root cause of our problems. I also feel that lack of education and an insane media are major contributors to those fears. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
