04-19-2007, 06:12 PM
Jim
Locked up is one thing, mine are not they are just in a closet but I don't have kids, but registration and a ban on sales is another.
As to sword statistics if there is a one off case that warrants the ban of guns when why is a one off case not good enough for swords. I read about rival gang members attacking each other with cheap Japanese style swords in London being a growing problem last summer, it was part of the outcry for the sword ban.
Heck there are a bunch of baseball bat murders that have happened lately too, why don't we ban them. Picking on guns seems to come from an irrational fear of them than a statistical based rational judgment. We know of countries full of guns with some of the lowest murder rates in the world and some with a ban on guns that have lots of gun murders; it clearly shows that culture not guns are the issue so why start banning tools instead of confronting our cultural issues?
Locked up is one thing, mine are not they are just in a closet but I don't have kids, but registration and a ban on sales is another.
As to sword statistics if there is a one off case that warrants the ban of guns when why is a one off case not good enough for swords. I read about rival gang members attacking each other with cheap Japanese style swords in London being a growing problem last summer, it was part of the outcry for the sword ban.
Heck there are a bunch of baseball bat murders that have happened lately too, why don't we ban them. Picking on guns seems to come from an irrational fear of them than a statistical based rational judgment. We know of countries full of guns with some of the lowest murder rates in the world and some with a ban on guns that have lots of gun murders; it clearly shows that culture not guns are the issue so why start banning tools instead of confronting our cultural issues?
James Barker
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