You know the first time I went to Japan and interacted with the people there. like anywhere else they asked where I came from. When I told them they would immediately put there hands up one behind the other with the lead hand index finger point out away from. they then swung this configuration back and forth accompanied by the vocalization rat-ta-tat-tat-tat. Giving the implication that they understood that drive-by machine-gunnings continued to occur in Chicago in spite of the fact that it was 1969.

You present the same kind of misunderstanding with comments like;
  • you surely want to move away from the Gun Law of the old frontiers,
  • perceive the danger is far less here than American scaremongers such as the NRA whine about over there.


Even the old frontiers were not as wild as is believed. And the NRA is not scaremongering. NRA Mission: To protect the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and to promote safe, responsible, and competent use of firearms.
Founded: In 1871, by a group of Union veterans of the American Civil War. The first NRA president was Ambrose Burnside; the eighth, Ulysses S. Grant. I was actually surprised to see that the organization is that old!

Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
It seems obvious that people who fear another person is armed will be less inclined to attack. The stats will prove nothing but the obvious. However, you surely want to move away from the Gun Law of the old frontiers, where the survivor was right and the dead man was in the wrong, don't you.

Only recently, I discovered that the UK is more violent than USA or South Africa. Yet there is no real demand here for the right to carry guns or other weapons in public, and if there were a referendum, I bet a pound to a penny that the vote would be against. In fact, it is against the law to carry any offensive weapon in public.

OK, we might get hit with a bat, or knifed, but we perceive the danger is far less here than American scaremongers such as the NRA whine about over there.