| Guns or no Guns
I am posting this strictly out of curiousity and am thinking maybe other peoples insight/knowledge will help me understand this better.
Why is it in countries that have literally banned all firearms, even cops on routine patrol don't carry them, they have a much lower (almost non-existent) incidence of violent crimes, especially those involving firearms?
People say: limit guns then only the criminals have them. That's not true in Britain or Australia.
Alot of people believe that if the US allowed people to have CCW permits in all states, that it would cut down on crimes with guns because criminals would be more hesitant to approach not knowing if you are armed. Yet, Britain and Austrailia tried the complete opposite way - no guns for anyone (except hunting, etc.) - and it's worked great. You don't see a case of criminals running around with guns - they don't have them either (I'm sure a couple got ahold of them somehow, though).
I don't get it. |