Quite the man arnt we?Don't get angry with a woman just because you spent 20 minutes typing
About 2-3 minutes, and I respond to men or women who make dumb ass condescending comments like
"It made a modicum of sense at least - despite the mashed up quoting abilty"
"most people that post on the politics board have a basic grasp of world affairs."
"Pretty basic points tbh. But hey, if you fancy yourself an expert go for it."
Guess what sport, those are insults and she deserved the response she got. Finally, I guess this will come to a shock both both of you, but where she is from is irrelevant to the topic, so her using this issue as some sort of useful argument other then the fact I mistook her for a Brit, tells me she's f-ing clueless or being a dink on purpose. She's not a Brit. I thought she was. Stunning stuff there...
So, she - or you - can (gasp) actually add something objective to the topic of gun crime, gun stats, etc., and move on from the revelation she's not a Brit...
You dig? Being neither she nor you seem to actually be able to add something objective here, I will. Countries with the stricter gun laws have HIGHER rates of murder and violence, which was just published in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (pages 649-694):
"Appearing in the current issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (pages 649-694), the Kates/Mauser report entitled "Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International Evidence" is a detailed look at gun ownership and how it does not relate to the incidence of murder and violence. They conclude that
"nations with very stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher murder rates than those which allow guns."
The Abstract:
Abstract
The world abounds in instruments with which people can kill each other. Is the widespread availability of one of these instruments, firearms, a crucial determinant of the incidence of murder? Or do patterns of murder and/or violent crime reflect basic socio-economic and/or cultural factors to which the mere availability of one particular form of weaponry is irrelevant?
This article examines a broad range of international data that bear on two distinct but interrelated questions: first, whether widespread firearm access is an important contributing factor in murder and/or suicide, and second, whether the introduction of laws that restrict general access to firearms has been successful in reducing violent crime, homicide or suicide. Our conclusion from the available data is that suicide, murder and violent crime rates are determined by basic social, economic and/or cultural factors with the availability of any particular one of the world’s myriad deadly instrument being irrelevant.
Full paper downloaded here:
http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/1413/