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<blockquote data-quote="CAROLER" data-source="post: 3014274" data-attributes="member: 117273">Does any US citizen seriously buy the argument that your Government thinks twice about its actions because of the fact that the population is armed????Time for a wake up call methinks... There may be many reasonable arguments for gun ownership but that certainly isn&#039;t one of them.Personally I think comparing one culture to another on such issues tends to get us nowhere, but I&#039;d like to repost some stuff from MAP a while back to make people realise the reality&nbsp; of gun crime in the UK rather than the tabloid hysteria. These stats were the lates available at the time, I don&#039;t have opportunity right now to go after the latest ones:In other words gun control in the UK has reduced criminals to using air guns and replicas more frequently. Yes &quot;Gun Crime&quot; is up, but most of it is non-fatal beacuse of the non-lethal nature of the weapons involved.So before anyone wades in with the &quot;Gun Control doesn&#039;t work in the UK!&quot; argument based on what the media has a bee in its bonnet about at the moment, please consider the reality.Whether that would hold true for the US is obviously a completely different matter.Mitch</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CAROLER, post: 3014274, member: 117273"] Does any US citizen seriously buy the argument that your Government thinks twice about its actions because of the fact that the population is armed????Time for a wake up call methinks... There may be many reasonable arguments for gun ownership but that certainly isn't one of them. Personally I think comparing one culture to another on such issues tends to get us nowhere, but I'd like to repost some stuff from MAP a while back to make people realise the reality of gun crime in the UK rather than the tabloid hysteria. These stats were the lates available at the time, I don't have opportunity right now to go after the latest ones: In other words gun control in the UK has reduced criminals to using air guns and replicas more frequently. Yes "Gun Crime" is up, but most of it is non-fatal beacuse of the non-lethal nature of the weapons involved. So before anyone wades in with the "Gun Control doesn't work in the UK!" argument based on what the media has a bee in its bonnet about at the moment, please consider the reality. Whether that would hold true for the US is obviously a completely different matter. Mitch [/QUOTE]

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