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Yay, my turn to add to the never ending thread. This I copied from a post I did a while back on my car forum.
I do believe that every mentally stable, and responsible individual (has no criminal record) has the RIGHT to have a firearm. I also believe that firearms do not kill people, the TRUE source of crime is lack of education, poverty, and no sense of community, that in part pushes to people kiling people. I don't blind myself also that a educated and wealthy person is incapable of killing, I just mean that if anyone wants the roots of MOST crimes this is them.
My Evidence: My opinions do not go without much research. Let me state the following to engrave my ideas. The nation that will push my idea forward is the Swiss Confederation (Switzerland). With a population of 7.5 million, it is a nation that is divided by culture and language (French and German). It is a nation where catholics and protestants are the major religions (about 40% each, it has an athiest community of about 9). So with all these divisions... should switzerland not see some ethnic/religious tensions... the answer is NO. Unemployment is very low, as is poverty. The education level is very high. So what make switzerland so popular? Well, the swiss militia system that able bodied males (this includes mental state( and people with no criminal record are subdued to 22 years of service... officers have longer terms. So normally they get 15 weeks of training, and every two years 3 weeks of of training (PAID woohoo). So still why is this nation so important to my argument, well, each person in the militia is given a M-57 assualt rifle and 24 rounds of ammunition, and they HAVE to keep it in their home, for national protection.
So with all these guns (not pistols, but assualt rifles) crime should be extremely high..................WRONG. Gun homocide is lower then in CANADA, altough suicide is high, buts that is a whole different issue. Crimes are also very low, most are done by foreigners (thief tourists. Do not think I believe that violence hear in Canada is foreigners, I am an immigrant). No wonder crime is low, you wouldn't want to rob a house that has a assualt rifle lock and loaded.
In Canada, we have around 29% of households with registered guns... the USA around 36. We are not that behind our friends in the south, but somehow the USA manages to exceed our gun homocide by a lot. When I mean a lot, look at the statistics (this are stats that I collected around a two years ago for a paper, they may have changed)
Canada Homocide with gun .6 per 100, 000.
USA Homocide with gun 6.24 per 100,000
But again this comes to my three valuable rules, that if these factors exist, then crime will exist, whether or not a firearm is present.
- poverty
- lack of education
- no sense of community
People kill people, and to minimize this the three areas explained are most likely the roots of such actions, but not always.
Thanks for reading.
I do believe that every mentally stable, and responsible individual (has no criminal record) has the RIGHT to have a firearm. I also believe that firearms do not kill people, the TRUE source of crime is lack of education, poverty, and no sense of community, that in part pushes to people kiling people. I don't blind myself also that a educated and wealthy person is incapable of killing, I just mean that if anyone wants the roots of MOST crimes this is them.
My Evidence: My opinions do not go without much research. Let me state the following to engrave my ideas. The nation that will push my idea forward is the Swiss Confederation (Switzerland). With a population of 7.5 million, it is a nation that is divided by culture and language (French and German). It is a nation where catholics and protestants are the major religions (about 40% each, it has an athiest community of about 9). So with all these divisions... should switzerland not see some ethnic/religious tensions... the answer is NO. Unemployment is very low, as is poverty. The education level is very high. So what make switzerland so popular? Well, the swiss militia system that able bodied males (this includes mental state( and people with no criminal record are subdued to 22 years of service... officers have longer terms. So normally they get 15 weeks of training, and every two years 3 weeks of of training (PAID woohoo). So still why is this nation so important to my argument, well, each person in the militia is given a M-57 assualt rifle and 24 rounds of ammunition, and they HAVE to keep it in their home, for national protection.
So with all these guns (not pistols, but assualt rifles) crime should be extremely high..................WRONG. Gun homocide is lower then in CANADA, altough suicide is high, buts that is a whole different issue. Crimes are also very low, most are done by foreigners (thief tourists. Do not think I believe that violence hear in Canada is foreigners, I am an immigrant). No wonder crime is low, you wouldn't want to rob a house that has a assualt rifle lock and loaded.
In Canada, we have around 29% of households with registered guns... the USA around 36. We are not that behind our friends in the south, but somehow the USA manages to exceed our gun homocide by a lot. When I mean a lot, look at the statistics (this are stats that I collected around a two years ago for a paper, they may have changed)
Canada Homocide with gun .6 per 100, 000.
USA Homocide with gun 6.24 per 100,000
But again this comes to my three valuable rules, that if these factors exist, then crime will exist, whether or not a firearm is present.
- poverty
- lack of education
- no sense of community
People kill people, and to minimize this the three areas explained are most likely the roots of such actions, but not always.
Thanks for reading.