13 Shot Outside Arizona Nightclub

[LiberalLovinLug]

79. No one is suggesting that?

Then you are one of the few aficionados that don't share that believe. So you want to volunteer as one that isn't armed?
From what I hear from rabid gun "rights" folks they believe, like John Lott who wrote "More Guns Less Crime", that if just more people would carry, there would be inexplicably less gun violence. So those are the people I am addressing that response to. Not yourself, who is volunteering not to have a gun. (yeah right)

And on your other point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_Kingdom

"The United Kingdom has had one of the lowest rates of gun homicides in the world since before gun control legislation became stricter from the late twentieth century. In the United Kingdom in 2009 there were 0.07 recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm per 100,000 inhabitants; for comparison, the figure for the United States was 3.0, about 40 times higher"

New York City's handgun ban seems to also be resulting in a drop in the murder rate.

Its like if drinking and driving was legal. Its fun, why not? Hey if a drinking driver kills someone, well then he should go to jail, but its not drinking and driving that kills people, its individual bad apples that don't know how to drink and drive responsibly, right?

What I don't get is why don't you gun nuts just admit you enjoy having your fingers on such an exciting, life and death, invention. It gives you a thrill that you do not want to give up. Embrace it. I also love my independence and personal freedom so I can at least understand that way of thinking.

But its pointless to try and pretend that a country is not safer, that citizens feel safer, that murder, and suicide rates are not lower in places that have strict handgun controls and semi and automatic weapons banned. That doesn't mean banning ALL guns. Rifles meant for hunting and other guns meant for collecting are still allowed in Canada, where I live and the murder rate is 1/3 what it is for my neighbors down south. The spread of weapons whose sole purpose is to kill human beings is a bad idea. Its just common sense.

You and others of your ilk would rather have that thrill and gladly pay the price of having to live in a more paranoid dangerous society, than the other way around. I get it. I don't want that kind of society where I live, but some do. Each to their own. Enjoy.