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[johnslat]

Hard to say what that rate is, apparently:

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1993/09/20/japan-00002/

Regards,
John

[gregory999]

[steki47]

[steki47]

[wangdaning]

[Hod]

I know, let's all go buy a gun. I'd feel much safer then.

I'd show those kids with knives who's boss.

What do mean they'll have guns too?

[johnslat]

Dear wnagdaning,

"No person or persons are secure unless they can defend."

Glad I don't live in your world. I haven't had a firearm since 1967, my government-issued M-14.

In the almost 50 years since then, I've neither had nor felt any need to have a firearm to "defend" myself.

Of course, I have no objection to those who do feel such a need. As far as I'm concerned, you have have as many firearms as yiu think you need and can afford.

But what I what are some sensible controls - you, know,just to make as sure as possible that raging loonies and terrorists can't just go to the local gun-show and pick up an arsenal - not in place now.

1. Universal background checks with NO loopholes

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-gun-loophole-20150722-story.html

2. mandatory firearm training

3. mandatory insurance for firearm owners (after all, car owners are required to have it - and killing/maiming isn't even the primary purpose of having a car.)

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/08/opinions/yang-gun-violence/

And death by firearm is set to surpass deaths caused by car sometime this year. In 2015, deaths by firearms caught up.

December, 2015: For the first time in more than 60 years, firearms and automobiles are killing Americans at an identical rate, according to new mortality data released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2014, the age-adjusted death rate for both firearms (including homicides, suicides and accidental deaths) and motor vehicle events (car crashes, collisions between cars and pedestrians, etc) stood at 10.3 deaths per 100,000 people.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/americas-top-killing-machine/384440/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/17/guns-are-now-killing-as-many-people-as-cars-in-the-u-s/

Regards,
John

[scot47]

Will I be twice as safe if I buy TWO guns ?

[gregory999]

[wangdaning]

A firearm is one way to defend yourself, your possessions, and your family. That you feel no need for one is only relevant to you. Where I grew up everyone had guns in the house, remember going to a friends house and pulling something out of the couch, oh god, it was a rifle. We knew what guns were and what they could do, so I put it back. The problem with gun laws is that they are laws. They target people who obey the law. Most violence is committed by people who do not obey the law (be it an individual or a country).

Why not ban guns all around. Your money is safe in the bank, right? Everyone follows the law to not have guns, so nobody will have one. We might as well lay off all the security too, everyone is great and we all follow the law.

Maybe you are lucky John (my first name too by the way), but sometimes people do break into other people's houses. A gun will make people get out, even if you don't shoot. A gun in a criminals hands, and you unarmed, what happens then?

[gregory999]

[Hod]

[wangdaning]

So, I must be a Republican. Come on, another poster talked about demographics. You think it is a joke? Live in a large city with a huge population illegally holding a weapon versus a small town where the majority legally have weapons. Which place will have more crime per capita?

I lived in Oakland before coming to China, it was and is a place you would want to move away from. Saying that, I would not be afraid of people legally having a weapon, I would be afraid of those who illegally have weapons.

Guns are banned here, I do not have one. What is legal here is big knifes, and they get used. The government also has the privilege of holding guns. I have had a gun pointed at me more times in China than in the US. I had an automatic rifle pointed right at my head, why?

I doubt people in power would use force so easily if they knew people wouldn't take it.

If you really want to compare, look at other places with illegal firearms. Maybe Mexico?

[sheikh radlinrol]

[steki47]