http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294976,00.html

Epic. Keep in mind that there are 90 guns per 100 people. This does not mean nine out of ten people own a guns, about about 30%-40ish% of US households possess a firearm. People, like myself, often own multiple firearms.

Oh, I highlighted the most important part.

The most importion question is this:

How do we arm that last person?

England and Wales with six,

Jesus christ, 6 guns for every hundred people, personally I find that - for england, to be quite horrific. No wonder we have a mass number of people being killed in gun crime over the past few weeks. If this includes armed police and army then maybe, but for the population that is horrific and scary.

also;

Listen to the man

From Fox news? Expected/10

Then what shoudl you do? :huh:

HOW ABOUT BUY THEM!!!! :((

If we can have them, police should have them.

Doesn't that seem fair?

I wanna see a cop holding a pistol AND and uzi!!

Shotgun in the holder in the front seat, and an M4 in the trunk.

So says my pal in the Reno PD.

That would be epic. Anyway, my household has two guns for every person, so we're really packing. :J

Good to see if zombie nazis form an alliance with those dirty commies and then swim across the Atlantic to attack us, we'll be safe.

Arm the homeless.

Ya but if your away from your car, it isn't gunan help ya.

They need atleast 1 semi and one auto with them. Pistol v automatic=Automatic>

Automatic (police) v Automatic (them)= police >

Perhaps, but it doesn't do the motorist much good to see an officer walking up on their side of the vehicle with an assault rifle and full combat gear at the ready. That's why high risk areas use two or more cars, so they have a 'first response' unit ready should something untoward happen.

Automatic weapons, while useful (and fun), don't convey the sense of security that John Q. Public has become accustomed to. I would rather the police have better aim with the weapons they have before they pull out the heavy artillery.

"Please sir, can I have some change?"
"Sod off."
*Pulls gun out* "Wanna try again?"

Great solution <_<

Arm everyone, cuz then it'll go like this.

"Please sir can I have some money?"
"Sod off."
*They both pull a gun out*
"Well isn't this ducky..."

As it should be. :J

Something tells me to never want to meet Megami in real life for fear of what her arsenal can do. <psy?>

And this is why the US will never be conquered, ever. Think of it as our Russian Winter.

We won't be conquered because nuclear weapons have been invented, not because our civilians have some firearms.

wait, what recent shootings? Have I missed something big? D:

She's told me, and it's scary. :J


I'm happy to see that the US is heavily armed. Time for a revolution, my good friends?

Cops in my old town used to have their side arms and a 12 gauge or MP5 locked in the front of their vehicle, and some variation of the AR-15 in the trunk.

This news is good.

Think of it as freedom insurance.

Read my sig for relevant comments on the issue.

Guns forever!

Yeah that saying has been around for years.

I oughta get me a rifle

in case the chinese invade or i run into an armed homeless dude...

270 mil divided by 650 mil...
41.5% of all civilian-owned guns are owned by U.S. citizens... We're big, rich, and armed to the teeth. :awesome:

Of course, we also have one of the highest homicide rates in the First World. I'm not particularly sure this is a good thing.

Guns don't cause crime. When was the last time you heard of a rash of shootings in Switzerland or Finland? Never.

The US dosn't have a gun problem, we have a crime problem. Urban poverty and a piss-poor education system are bigger factors than guns.

I agree entirely. It is not our amount of guns, violence in the media, or culture that causes our high murder and crime rates - the rest of the world has those things too and they're fine. There's something about the US that causes violence, but it's an unknown variable and we shouldn't start making laws to try and stop it until we know what it is. I personally think we're all crazy, although I've heard that our surplus of everything and amount of free time gives us more time to think about how sad we are and how much we want to hurt people. Who knows.

... and at the same time we have more guns than any other nation on earth, but a lower murder rate than other countries.

Murders (per capita) (Latest available) by country
#1 Colombia: 0.617847 per 1,000 people
#2 South Africa: 0.496008 per 1,000 people
#3 Jamaica: 0.324196 per 1,000 people
#4 Venezuela: 0.316138 per 1,000 people
#5 Russia: 0.201534 per 1,000 people
#6 Mexico: 0.130213 per 1,000 people
#7 Estonia: 0.107277 per 1,000 people
#8 Latvia: 0.10393 per 1,000 people
#9 Lithuania: 0.102863 per 1,000 people
#10 Belarus: 0.0983495 per 1,000 people
#11 Ukraine: 0.094006 per 1,000 people
#12 Papua New Guinea: 0.0838593 per 1,000 people
#13 Kyrgyzstan: 0.0802565 per 1,000 people
#14 Thailand: 0.0800798 per 1,000 people
#15 Moldova: 0.0781145 per 1,000 people
#16 Zimbabwe: 0.0749938 per 1,000 people
#17 Seychelles: 0.0739025 per 1,000 people
#18 Zambia: 0.070769 per 1,000 people
#19 Costa Rica: 0.061006 per 1,000 people
#20 Poland: 0.0562789 per 1,000 people
#21 Georgia: 0.0511011 per 1,000 people
#22 Uruguay: 0.045082 per 1,000 people
#23 Bulgaria: 0.0445638 per 1,000 people
#24 United States: 0.042802 per 1,000 people
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_...ders-per-capita

99.9999% of the firearms will not be used to kill someone this year. Thats an astronomically small number. Actual uses in self-defense is rather small as well.

Guns =/= crime.

That's why I said first world. It's pretty obvious that there are higher homicide rates in other nations, but then there are other nations that are in complete anarchy. And I agree that the media's representation of violence does have a role to play in causing crime, but there is no one cause to crime, and guns certainly do facilitate the commiting of crimes.

In the same way that spoons facilitate the eating of food.

You simply say first world to exclude the 23 nations who have higher murder rates than the US. If guns caused crime, we should rank #1 on that list. If guns contributed to suicide, the US should rank #1. If guns prevented crime we should rank at the very bottom.

Guns have a minimal impact on crime. Better to have one and not need it, but still, minimal.

"Guns certainly do facilitate the committing of crimes."? Why have I not committed a crime yet?

[monotone] oh no, people with guns...sooooomebody save us[/monotone]

Because, somewhere along the line, your parents weren't spoon-fed by the liberal media into believing the BS made up about guns and thus not allowing you to own them, thereby passing the stigma onto another generation to propagate the lies? Because of which you learned about firearms in a safe and structured environment and was taught discipline around them?

There's no poverty in Europe? Ha! Our crime problem has not to do with poverty, nor education, nor gun ownership, but rather with bad values or none at all.

It's amazing how paranoid so many American gun owners seem to be.

It's true. All the gun haters made us this way.

I highly doubt you can just throw aside poor-education and poverty in some areas as a cause for crime...cause they ARE some of the causes for crime. :huh:

I both agree and disagree. While guns give criminals a weapon and can facilitate crime, said weapons will never leave the criminal's hand, regardless of how many gun bans there are.

Might as well let everyone have a gun, instead of leaving the sensible ones defenseless.

I love when politicians try to assure us that taking guns away from law abiding citizens makes them safer. Unfortunately, a large portion of the population is dumb enough to follow that sort of logic.