09-23-2007, 11:35 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender:  Posts: 11,896 Country:  Points: 39,908, Level: 100 | Level up: 0%, 0 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by Ollie Gerclamwell 
The reason the majority of Europe is gun-free is not to control the criminal element and provide the people with a nice quiet neighborhood. Europe's gun bans were enacted for political reasons; the rulers wanted a safe and inhabitable society for themselves! Insurrections are squashed by keeping the subjects defenseless; that they are quiet and "safe" now is more an outcome of their historically servile status, not of the fact they just can't own a gun. If it was just "the gun law" that make those nations safe and quiet why hasn't it modified the behavior of Europe's violent immigrants, i.e. England's Yardies?
| What utter nonsense! Where do you get this drivel from? The NRA website??
It is the people themselves who have demanded that their governments get rid of guns - perhaps because they have seen what guns have done to the US.
Most European countries have been through periods where most people had guns, as recently as WW2.
But they also realise that more guns = more gun deaths. That's why they get their governments to do something about it.
And they aren't beholden to the best intents of a bunch of 18th century politicians who are long since dead and buried.
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