I don't advocate gun control of any kind, but I started looking at UK gun laws after some anon posted this last nightpic.twitter.com/ug8xDo0vao
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I don't advocate gun control of any kind, but I started looking at UK gun laws after some anon posted this last nightpic.twitter.com/ug8xDo0vao
Basically what they did was ban handguns (outside of NI), and semi-autos over a certain caliber.
Plus you have to get a permit to own, and self-defense is not a valid reason for wanting a permit.
So there's a lot wrong with it (especially since I think self-defense is basically a God-given right).
However, what it does is make most of the guns that are used for street crime difficult to obtain.
In the U.S., average crime involving a firearm is committed with a semi-auto pistol, which is why gun control debates always miss the point
The FBI traqs homicides by weapon type (https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/expanded-homicide-data/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2010-2014.xls …)pic.twitter.com/S0ZzbrFtOS
Since UK doesn't see self-defense as valid reason to own weapon, its knife laws are especially draconian (https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives …)pic.twitter.com/sBEXnHcyCG
One thing that I think creates an impasse between America and other countries is that we are much less densely populated
I would buy this argument if the densest parts of USA weren't also some of the slowest to respond (also ffs USA is not a uniform density)
Slow response times to which areas? The projects or...
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