[Livia]

Originally Posted by Maru

I would have to disagree. The last thing one would want to do after someone was just shot dead for expressing their free speech is to try to crack down on the rights of others to defend themselves in the rest of the country. That would go very poorly and we would find out actually it is in fact much harder to ban guns than it would be knives in the US because the political blow back would be immediate.

Great post, Maru, and true.

There are at least a dozen countries with more firearms deaths per head of capita than the USA but never make the news and disarming them all is never discussed on here.