Easy
You will still be allowed to have guns.......just not as many types
Here's the problem with your "thinking":
The law abiding citizen will not have them, but the criminals will. Now why would you want to give an edge to criminals?
Not for the bad guys. For them, it's a tactical advantage.
Every other country that banned or limited private gun ownership had their level of violent crime drop.
Another lie from Joe. Shocking, I know.
After the UK virtually banned civilian firearm ownership, violent crime increased, rather dramatically. According to an August 24, 2007 article in
The Times, firearm use in
crimes in the UK doubled in the decade since handguns were banned.
According to the British Home Office, as reported by BBC news on July 12, 2002, U.K. street robberies soared 28% in 2001. Violent crime was up 11%, murders up 4%, and rapes are up 14%. The trend continued in 2004 with a 10% increase in street crime, 8% increase in muggings, and a 22% increase in robberies.
According to the Centre for Defense Studies at King's College in London, Handguns were used in 3,685 British offenses in 2000 compared with 2,648 in 1997, an increase of 40%.
So, you're wrong about England. Not only did violent crime not decrease, it increased.
How about Australia? They virtually banned civilian ownership of firearms in 1996. How'd that go for them?
In the first two years after the confiscation, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there was a "a dramatic increase in criminal activity".
According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, in 2001-2002, homicides increased by 20%. Further, Firearm-related murders were up 19%, armed robberies were up 69%, and home invasions were up 21%. And this during a period where just about every western country was experiencing a drop in violent crime.
So, you're wrong about Australia too.
In Japan, they had 11 Gun Homicides last year. Compared to our 9148
It's true Japan's culture deals with relatively fewer homicides. JapanÂ’s murder rate may be low, but its suicide rate is over 20 per 100,000 people. Combined, Japanese are being murdered and committing suicide at a rate of about 21 per 100,000. In the U.S., our combined murder and suicide rate is also about 21.
So, less murders, WAY MORE SUICIDES. Whatever Japan is like, it ain't nirvana.