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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Hey, I can go off-topic as much as the next guy. Since essentially banning private ownership of guns in the UK, gun violence has risen.
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I know, and I find it very troubling. However, compare the figures; in the UK, gun murders are primarily drug dealers killing each other with illegal weapons. I believe we had about 50 murders by shooting last year. That's probably wrong, but I know it's well under 100. What we don't have are the vast number of family argument and accidental shootings with legally-owned weapons that tragically occur in the US. Here, in a family row, someone's likely to pick up a rolling pin and hit their spouse on the head, which is rarely fatal. Unfortunately, in the US, all too often a gun is close to hand and a tragedy results.
They are your laws, however, and I know that many people have strong views about the "right to bear arms", etc. It's for you to decide whether or not that's appropriate for a modern society, not me.