I'm from a country that is famous for making soldiers (and pretty much every guy has to go to the military when he is around 20, even if they are starting to relax that now) keep their assault rifles at home (yet that is also slowly chancing) .... Yet we have pretty low crime, and if there is, it's more likely to involve knives.... I guess because you can't really carry an assault rifle around without being in uniform and not have people suspicious about it, while handguns are heavily regulated and hard to get without a permit. (And permits are not that hard to get if you are a member of a shooting or hunter club - just that hardly anyone I know wants to join such a club, or handle guns at all... and those who do preach about how it is a good thing that you have to join a club to get a permit and learn how to safely handle a gun)
So yeah, I can't really see how the society in which I live would profit from guns being freely available to everyone
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Date: 2010-03-16 03:25 pm (UTC)Yet we have pretty low crime, and if there is, it's more likely to involve knives.... I guess because you can't really carry an assault rifle around without being in uniform and not have people suspicious about it, while handguns are heavily regulated and hard to get without a permit. (And permits are not that hard to get if you are a member of a shooting or hunter club - just that hardly anyone I know wants to join such a club, or handle guns at all... and those who do preach about how it is a good thing that you have to join a club to get a permit and learn how to safely handle a gun)
So yeah, I can't really see how the society in which I live would profit from guns being freely available to everyone