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Originally Posted by hobosexual
That's just not how it works though, law abiding citizens aren't going to just decide to kill someone for mouthing off because they are allowed to carry a weapon, South Dakota for example has the highest per capita rate of concealed weapon license holders and it also has the lowest rate of violent crime.
Statistically the U.S. is a much safer place to be, and crime in the U.K. has only gotten worse in the years following this handgun ban.
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so?
you think that south dakota has a low crime rate because of the amount of guns owned by citizens? what about the state of the economy, level of education and religion or ethnic makeup of the state? THOSE are the things that probably give it a low level of crime, not weapons.
also i dont know why you keep going on about handgun bans in the UK.
the level of violent crime in the UK has decreased over the last ten years.
the only reason there seems to be a higher rate of knife crime/violent assaults in large cities is due to a number of factors including: massive increase of immigrants since 1997's labour landslide victory, impact of the current recession of which britain is still stuck in, wider availability of alcohol leading to britain being the worst country in europe for alcohol related problems and finally the social tensions which spring from all of these problems leading to more kids deciding to be morons and break the law.
the handgun ban has nothing to do with any of this, so i dont know why you are getting fixated on it.