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Originally Posted by manaboutown
Mexico has strong gun control laws and , apparently, only one gun store which is run by the police. It seems that the gun control laws there take away the right of ordinary citizens to defend themselves which make it a piece of cake for the criminal, drug gangs and the like to get away with horrendous (multiple) murders.
Many ordinary citizens who realize they may have occasion to protect themselves own guns illegally.
Mexico Shows That Tight Gun Control Laws Don't Guarantee Compliance - Hit & Run : Reason.com |
And Canada, UK, Australia, France, Germany etc etc which are much better examples of countries with strong governments, non-corrupted police and military, first world nations, like the USA have strong gun regulations and miniscule gun murder rates. Please, if you are trying to make comparisons to other countries, picks ones most like ours for this issue at hand.