Quote: ""but a knife is easier to defend from and to survive an attack of"
Tell that to the 20 teenagers that have died this year in London from knife crimes"
I did not say it was impossible, I said it is easier - what about the Victims of gun crime who would have been given a better chance if the attacker had a knife instead?
My argument is not that: guns = death, knives = safe. I'm arguing that guns are more dangerous, of course guns being illegal isn't going to stop gun crime, because there will always be a black market when they can sneak in guns and ammo, but if you make guns legal and supply them, like America does, but in the UK, then those 20 teenagers might have been more and then we'd put ourself into a spot where we have more gun crime and perhaps more deaths as a result and of course we'd need guns to protect ourselves too.
The difference between the UK and the US is that the threats are different - I don't need a gun to be safe in the UK (or on my trip to Germany) nor do I need a knife, but it doesn't mean I won't get attacked either. In the US I might not need one, but some do and those paranoid of attacks feel it necessary to one a gun, 'just in case' and because 'I have the right', though there are places in the USA where it's best to have a firearm to keep yourself or others safe.
But I think I'll reiterate a question:
Take the statistics of a countries homocides, where guns are not supplied and where posession of a firearm is illegal. Lets give out a figure for arguments sake of 3000 killings. Would the number go up or down, or stay roughly the same IF firearms were legal and availible outside of the black market? If you answer this, please stay why this would be so.
Quote: "Some people collect them, as a hobby, others hunt, some just like to go to the range and shoot clay pidgeons. It's not like we're all barbaric savages bent on blowing each other away if we don't get our way. "
With an air rifle? Air rifles are legal in the UK (I believe you need a license first) and people in the UK hunt. But do you hunt with an air rifle (which is rather big and noticeble if you're walking around with one) or a pistol?
You sir have the moral ambivalence of a mutated shrimp!
