Before we start, I want to point out that 2AGuy, the nuttiest of the gun nuts, could not find a European country that has anywhere near the number of mass shooting incidents we have in the US.
Violence is cultural....in Europe they aren't as violent as our inner city populations, where most of our violence is.
And we are back to 'it's just the darkies killing each other, so that makes it okay." argument. Even though we are talking about a racist who shot a bunch of unarmed black people. This person will say with the same lack of ******* irony if those grannies had been packing, they could have stopped this madman.
They all have things in common, feudalism...which created a class society where the commoners had no access to weapons or the ability to fight, and World War 1 and 2 as well as nazi occupation in all of those countries...they have been beaten down as people and have developed a national pacifism...which you could see back when hitler was coming to power, and now, when Putin is rampaging through the Ukraine....
Uh, in the Ukraine, you have plenty of people fighting. The problem is, if Putin wanted to, he could crush the whole of the Ukraine in about a week. Instead, what you have there is the Russians living in the Ukraine not wanting to be part of the Ukraine anymore. And expressing that with- wait for it - guns.
Also....in Britain..they can search your house when they want.....it is easier to control the population when the police have more power....and that is even more so in Japan, China, South Korea...........citizens have fewer rights in those countries...for speech and searches......
Horseshit. The British have the same protections against unlawful searches we have.
Search Warrants Avoiding the Pitfalls UK Police Law Blog
But you do have a point. The police do have an easier time controlling an unarmed population. That's why they don't have 500+ Police shootings a year.
American Cops Just Killed More People in March than the UK Did in the Entire 20th Century The Free Thought Project
Just last month, in the 31 days of March, police in the United States killed more people than the UK did in the entire 20th century. In fact, it was twice as many; police in the UK only killed 52 people during that 100 year period.
According to the report by ThinkProgess, in March alone, 111 people died during police encounters — 36 more than the previous month. As in the past, numerous incidents were spurred by violent threats from suspects, and two officers were shot in Ferguson during a peaceful protest. However, the deaths follow a national pattern: suspects were mostly people of color, mentally ill, or both.
Um, er. Founding Fathers... Er, um Freedom?
Tell me how one extreme gun control law stops their criminals from getting hand grenades, rocket propelled grenades, pistols and fully automatic rifles.......since their criminals get them all the time whenever they want even with their extreme gun control.....their gun control laws are more extreme than ours and their criminals get all of those weapons easily......
Explain that joe......
They don't get them that often, guy, that's the point. You maybe have one incident a decade, and when they do have an incident, they tighten down the laws to keep from it happening again.
In this country, we have an incident like this, we find out the person was batshit crazy and got a gun anyway, and the NRA goes out and makes sure that guns are even more freely available.