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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
It is not practical to believe that a handgun can be placed on the hip of every US citizen in ALL situations. They would start shooting each other at the 1st sound of a golf car backfiring. Australia and ALL other 1st world countries do NOT have large gun violence problems. It is the US that does. The US is more than 4 times greater than the next worse country. And even Canada is way better than America. The US has 1.2 guns per PERSON. More guns equate to more killing, not less. Any other conclusion is based on propaganda put out by companies that sell guns. I try to avoid propaganda.
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The problem with that theory is Australia didn't solve the problem. They forced their mass murderers to use a different weapon resulting in more mass murder events and more people being killed. It's a hollow victory to suggest, well, gun deaths went down, but knife deaths are way up. Winning! Trading one weapon for another and not reducing the deaths isn't winning.
Every person doesn't have to be armed. Only one person has to be armed and procient to stop a killer. I don't know how many people were in that food court, but Elisha Dicken stopped the killer all by himself before the 911 Operator could say, "state your emergency".
26 of our States now have Constitutional carry. If that was nationwide it would be effective. We're 16 pages into this thread and there is still NO evidence or proof that infringing on American's Right to keep and bear arms will stop mass murder. The reason is plain to see. Law abiding citizens don't kill people. Criminals do. Disarming law abiding citizens will not stop the criminals.
I don't have such a low opinion of our citizens to believe they would be irresponsible with firearms.