Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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 Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| Justin Hale, elsewhere, wrote: |
Wikipedia's gun violence stats are based on 1999; nevertheless taking a look at the stats of the US, Canada and England + Wales backs up my point about culture/society rather than law. Guns are just as popular in Canada and protected by the constitution, yet in Canada the likelihood of being shot is 28% of that in the US, whereas, more interestingly - since Canada being a less violent and insane society than the US is hardly headline news - the likelihood of being shot in England and Wales is 71% of that in Canada, meaning England/Wales have a societal and cultural problem with guns despite total illegality and Canada doesn't have much of a problem at all considering guns aren't prohibited.
I don't recommend total prohibition of guns in the US at all; I think it'd be a disaster like prohibition of alcohol. America is not Saudi Arabia where prohibition does somewhat work. Americans want to drink. Prohibition was repealed for a reason. Likewise, the Americans are not the Dutch or the Spanish with regard to guns and so it's dreamland stuff to suppose American gun violence stats will go down to Netherlands and Spain levels solely via prohibition. |
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