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Originally Posted by Ninastar

I know, but you also have to consider the sheer size of America... Yes, banning guns would prevent as many shootings, but the criminals would still find ways of getting them.

And probably another unpop opinion, but I think the police officers would need guns too. So would you ban the police members having guns too? I think that would be an even worse idea. I think it's bad enough that the police officers over here don't have guns... it's a scary though, the US police not having guns...

I;m not a guns activist at all... (yay guns!!!!!!!11) but banning them would really be completely useless.

I'm all for stricter regulations, that definitely needs to be done, but there's no way in a million years they would ever ban guns. I wish there was a way for gun crime to be completely diminished over there, but sadly I don't think there is.

Originally Posted by Creggle

Thats more down to the fact USA has 50x our population tbh, if somebody wants to shoot someone they will do so regardless of where they live.

China and India are the only countries in the world with larger populations than the USA and they don't have any freely available gun crime statistics that I can find - but they don't have reputations for gun crime, which I would put down to the fact that only criminals have guns which they've gotten illegally. Everyone in the USA who owns a gun is a potential criminal. That's not an accusation or meant to be condescending, it's just that if you have a gun in your home, you are equipped and prepared to shoot somebody with it. Why else would you own one? If you want to shoot someone, you're going to do it, but if you can't easily access a gun then you're not going to do it so easily. I would argue that if you make it more difficult to get a gun, it's more difficult for your average person to lose their cool and do something mental.