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I have to take issue with Peerless on a point he has made, namely,
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"only 100 people died in Britain from accidental gun discharges and 10,000 in the USA" make no applicable sense simply because our population is much higher and guns are legal here whereas they are not in Britain...get the point?
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The fact is there is no point, if a hundred people died in the UK because of guns, accidental or not, there would be public outrage and politicians would be calling for greater gun restrictions than we already have.
However, if 10,000 people died of guns in the US who would really care, apart from the relatives of the victims. It seems that guns are so endemic within US society that it takes a number of gun victims killed in quick succession before anybody takes what has happened seriously, like a school massacre.
So you see, it’s not a matter of statistics, it’s a matter of lives lost to guns and whether your society cares enough to do something about it. Sadly, it seems that Americans don’t trust their authorities to control guns or to protect them from the criminals and mad men who carry them. Hence, the “right to bear arms”.
UK Bob