
Originally Posted by
Leo
The per capita gun murder rate in the United States is 36 times that of the United Kingdom. And this does not take into account manslaughter and accidental killings by firearms, or killings by armed police forces. Something like 11,000 Americans are killed each year by guns.
Do we want that in the UK (or countries like Australia and NZ)? Ownership of a deadly weapon has nothing to do with rights or freedoms. The real freedoms (from want, from racial prejudice, from illness,) we enjoy in the UK and Commonwealth countries (by means of laws, real social services, and universal health care) are much more significant than the 'freedoms' Americans imagine they have.
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