More than half of all gun deaths are suicide.
Not murder, or armed robbery, or accidental. Its fucking suicide man, do you think a gun ban will stop suicide?
Do not compare me to government. Ever.
The US government lies about the beneficial uses of mary jane and still classifies it as a controlled substance.
I state facts and statistics and I still believe in a thing called freedom. Much different than the government.
My point is that guns dont kill people, people kill people.
Yes you are right, if there were no guns we would see a drop in gun deaths. But then we will see a rise in knife deaths. And then brutal beating deaths. And then bomb deaths.
People will not stop killing people because they dont have a gun.
In or about 2006, there were about 60 million (actually closer to 58M, but we'll use the rounded-up number to be kind to hopolophobes) people in the UK as a whole, including Scotland.
In England and Wales alone discounting Scotland there were over 163 thousand knife crimes.
By the end of 2006, there were more than 300 million people in the US as a whole.
In the US as a whole, there were fewer than 400 thousand gun crimes.
In the UK, based on these numbers, there was one knife crime commited for every 374 people (rounded down).
In the US, based on these numbers, there was one gun crime committed for every 750 people less than half a gun crime per 374 people (about 0.4987 gun crimes per 374 people, actually).
That means that, based on these statistics, you are
more than twice as likely to be a victim of knife crime in the UK as you are to be a victim of gun crime in the US
