| Grey Acumen said: America won't ban guns until Europe finds a way to make their violent crime rate drop to zero. Though I suppose you might actually believe that would happen, since you got rid of guns. I do kinda wonder how long it will be before they ban cars over there too. Come on, the less cars on the road, the less likely there will be to have accidents, cause all the public transportation drivers will be trained, right? The only reason you would need to have a car is if you were a criminal trying to get away from the police, who are the only ones that should be allowed to drive cars. Otherwise you wouldn't have any trouble conforming to whatever the government decides are acceptable routes. I mean heck, it's not like a person in a regular car can stop a person from hitting a pedestrian with their car, so there isn't any reason a law abiding citizen should have a car. and yeah, I know that I'm not going to be able to change your views either, because you believe very 'passionately' for want of a better word, that life is more important than liberty. I'm fairly sure that in 25 years, Europe is going to be too busy trying to quell the idea that you never have to worry about getting killed if you're a criminal in Europe for America to even consider banning firearms. Even if they do try, it won't be a successful attempt. They tried to abolish alcohol too, and you can see what happened with that. |
The impression I get is that you think criminals deserve to die. Hardly any burglary/theft ends in someone being killed here in the UK. I don't know if the same can be said over in America.
Cars are necessary to everyday life. We use them to get to work/school/shops etc. There primary use is transport. Where as a gun is used for killing primarily. Cars do kill a lot of people. But you can't intentionally kill someone without putting your life at serious risk as well.
Imagine that for some reason you wanted someone dead. What would you use to kill them, a car or a gun? With a gun you can just hide and wait until he/she comes back from work or wherever and just shoot them without them even knowing. How would you do the same in a car? Drive through their living room while they are watching tv?
What I am saying is that guns are far more effective and efficient at killing some one than a car.
Criminals in Europe certainly stand a lower chance of being killed while committing the offense than in USA. But I bet there are less criminals in Europe than there are in USA.
As for alcohol. I don't know what you were trying to say there, but, buying alcohol is legal at the age of 16 in mainland Europe and 18 in the UK. Where as, I believe it is 21 in the USA.
