"Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one." Oooops, better add axes to the ban list. The Boston Strangler used nylon stocking to kill most of his victims. Does this mean stockings should be banned and the manufactures sued for their responsibility in producing these deadly weapons?
Jeffery Dahmer, now he creates a dilemma. What do we ban because of his serial killings? The drugs he used to subdue his victims, the fingers or ligatures used to strangle his victims, the power saw used to dismember his victims, or just ban gay men altogether?
To be safe, all of it. John Wayne Gacy used to dress up as a clown so clown suits are out. Ted Bundy wore a fake cast to con women into helping him, then he'd hit them over the head and throw them into his van... so casts have got to go too. The Unabomber wore a hood and sunglasses which no doubt helped him evade law enforcement so those need to be banned. Son of Sam said a dog ordered him to kill so all pets need to go. You never know when cats or goldfish will start forcing people to commit mass murder.
The crazy thing about the US is there is no doubt there are huge crime rates in your country and the availability of guns is an important factor in that statistic. Some of you obviously just want a high crime rate and lots of random, preventable murders. And you'd defend that to the death ( quite literally unfortunately for some people ). And apparently for some of you people who don't like guns are somehow supposed to be ridiculed. Quite the opposite reaction is more rational; people defending the pro-gun ideas should be ridiculed there is no upside at all. Statistically, there is no debate, the numbers don't lie. Other interesting statistics : the US puts more of its citizens in jail then any civilized country ( with seemingly no reduction in crime rates ), and smoking cigarettes greatly increases your risk of early death. And, again, some people will debate these numbers to death and ignore reality.
There is no debate because the numbers show that you don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita&b_map=1 Thanks anyway but your pansy-ass delusions are better suited to your country than mine.
1. You're right. The numbers don't lie. US crime rates have been falling and continue to fall steadily. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1705342,00.html Even during the recession, big cities continue to see decreasing crime rates (especially violent crimes) and lower inmate populations. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/nyregion/11jails.html http://www.npr.org/2011/01/06/132677265/las-homicide-rate-lowest-in-four-decades 2. " people defending the pro-gun ideas should be ridiculed there is no upside at all." This is a common tactic of the left. Don't discuss issues, just ridicule everyone you disagree with as a "racist." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575379200412040286.html
http://www.guninformation.org/ The above website is likely a bit too intellectually challenging for the average ET slob...you know, the slobs that take the time to vote on threads, but don't take the time to reason sensibly...
You found an extremist web site that agrees with your leftist ideology. Well...that settles it for me.