its not all that simple to get a gun in the USA...maybe for a shot gun or hunting rifle, but certainly NOT for a hand gun....

also it is very hard to find real statistics on the subject of casualties, etc...why?, because one has to take into account the number of people in the county, the number of guns in legal possession, etc...simple statements like "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? anti-gun proponents will not present real statistics because they don't prove the point they wish to make...

our founding fathers gave us the right to bear arms for specific reasons, one of them being SO THAT WE CAN TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM THE CURRENT DAY CORRUPT LEADERS...get that point?

as far as accidents...just a thinning of the herd...harsh, but most likely necessary IMHO...

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People think it's best to have a gun in the home to feel safe at night when they sleep so no one will harm them.

There are people that lockup a gun, to keep children from picking one up and shooting someone.

When a person who owns a gun they need to know how to handle a gun first. Is it the right for anyone to shoot a person with a gun, when they are upset, NO, anyone that has anger issues should never be able to own a gun, this law policy should be enforce.

There is no right to harm another person with a gun.

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I have to take issue with Peerless on a point he has made, namely, 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”.


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