Ernie S.
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- Nov 14, 2010
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Cause and effect, Joe. People in Germany have a lower crime rate. (cause) They have less need to use firearms to protect themselves. (effect)Are you saying 500 child deaths are "acceptable" losses in your right to feel your false sense of security?
Fact is, most Americans don't need guns, and countries like Germany or Japan where private gun ownership is rare they have substatially lower crime rates.
They also don't let people become "homeless".
I find it amusing that rather than wanting to fix economic injustice, you would rather just have a pile of guns in the house to protect yourself from the consequences...
We become a bunch of apes with a club protecting our pile of stuff.
Protecting our pile of stuff from the apes that would use force to take it, is our right.
What you want to do is limit the effect and make the cause safer.
Taking away my right to protect my property is not the solution. Taking away my need to protect my property is.
Again, that gun is probably more of a danger to your household than it is to any bad guy. Statistics prove this.
Why does Germany have a lower crime rate.
Well, first, they don't let every asshole own a gun.
Second, they actually have a social welfare system that doesn't let people 'fall through the cracks" like this guy obviously did. Or at least not as many.
Another interesting stat for you "Law and Order" types. We lock up 2 million people out of a population of 308 million. The Germans lock up 78,000 out of a population of 80 million.
All these guns, all these prisons, and you are still afraid.
Doesn't that say a lot.
I'm sure as shit not afraid, Joe, but anyone who comes into my house uninvited, should be.
There are a dozen guns withing 8 feet of me, as I type and 2 more within 20. None of them has been involved in an accidental shooting.
I grew up with a loaded rifle next to the back door and managed to survive my youth.