Originally posted by EvilSadamClone
That's what America is supposed to be about.

Did you notice the topic of this thread? "To all NON AMERICANS, would you feel safer if your country allowed its citizens to carry/own guns?"

Guns are engraved into American public as part of their life, taking that away from them is like taking a cell phone from a teenager, they would be lost without it.

Originally posted by RandalFlagg
The arguments for allowing an armed population in case of the need of having to fight the government and military during martial law dont stand in my view.

Take America for example if martial law was declared and the people were not happy with it and decided to fight the military the people would get destroyed. The American armed civilians would not stand a chance against the American military hardware the soldiers would be using.

Its a crap situation unfortunately but armed or not civilians are not going to be able to defeat there own military in western countries.

I don't think you'd see many american soldiers firing on american civilians in that event though.. you'd probably see a rush of soldiers helping the citizens if it came to that..lets not forget that at the end of the day, those soldiers have a family at home in most cases.. it's not quite as black and white as that.

Originally posted by BenReclused
That is NOT an accurate statement! The police here in the United States are armed with firearms because CRIMINALS have guns. That's also the primary reason our law abiding public feels there is a need to own handguns as well.

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Milt

Isn't that all a bit stupid though?

So everyone has guns because everyone else has guns?

Do you not see the flaw?

I haven't got round to reading other comments yet but I'll give my opinion first:

No I would not feel safer if guns were available to everybody. I have lived in 2 European countries and both of them have relatively strict rules about gun ownership and it the idea of needing to 'protect myself' by owning a gun has never occured to me.

I was mugged once in London walking home at knifepoint and I'm willing to bet that if guns were available on the mass market that the guy would have had a gun. To be frank the impression I get is that some of our US posters would like the opportunity to be in such a situation so they could kill somebody with a weapon and call it self defence - which gun ownership would allow.

I'm not interested in helping to create a more violent society and frankly killing somebody if they are robbing you is an over-reaction and has to be treated as such.

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Australia doesn't need to have its gun laws changed, it makes me laugh when people start saying that Australians have had their guns taken away from them.

If your an Australian you can own guns, its easy just do a course in a basic safety test, get your licence and there you have it, go buy yourself a gun.

there are different types of guns though, i think the only ones you cant have are military style, full automatic, but you can get a rifles and pistols.

the course costs a few hundred dollars but if you can afford to buy a gun, you can afford the course.


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