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[Iv121]

He'll go to hunt his neighbours !

[Vinyl]

He can only hunt them if they don't shoot back. Or shoot first.

[CommanderKobialka]

The ignorance of all you foreigners...
Murica!

[Shadowcatbot]

The ignorance of all you foreigners...
Murica!

Charly decided to rob a bank, little did he know all the tellers had AK-47s under their tables.

[CommanderKobialka]

Exactly!

[Iv121]

You know even the notion that in order to combat crime you should pour more weapons in is disturbing, you know, why not give all that stuff to someone who knows how to actually use them and not some 16 year olds from an FC forum, lets say the police ? There are some very serious problems involving a citizenship in a vigilante state ... Plus the problem is not in the robbery fall rate but in the raise of "killed by a gun in various imaginable (and unimaginable) poses and situes".

Finally can you prove the fall in robbery and raise in arms are directly related to each other ? Perhaps the gov was clever and did what I said - poured money into the police.

[Archduke Daynel, PhD]

The ignorance of all you foreigners...
Murica!

Now do one that also includes the increase in police numbers and efficiency.

[Vinyl]

Correlation ≠ Causation

I'm pretty sure the public school system has failed to teach practical statistics to you, Shadow.

[Error]

Simple version:

Firearms are not owned by anyone except the military and police. You're not military/police and you have a firearm, you're off to see the judge.

Makes it simple; and depriving people of knives is harder (what with kitchens existing).

[Iv121]

Well knives cant kill a max of 10 ppl per second.

[Tau]

Drive a pickup truck into the audience of a parade, see what happens.

Three weeks later:
"BAN ALL PICKUP TRUCKS AND OTHER MOTOR VEHICLES CAPABLE OF TRAVELING OVER 80MPH" --Congress

[Iv121]

Well believe me its much harder than you think, first of all all parades are blockaded by police cars, its unlikley you will break through and manage to cause a lot of casualties in the same time. Plus you know its not my only concern, my main concern is that half of those who have those weapons use them like total idiots and end up shot by their very own hands, not only that but trucks are useful for things other than killing which you cant say about guns, sure you can use them for hunting but tell do you really beleive there are that many hunters in the US ? As I said the only thing you can do with so many guns is to hunt down your neighbours.

[Ivan2006]

Firearms are not owned by anyone except the military and police. You're not military/police and you have a firearm, you're off to see the judge.

What about hunters?

In Austria, the law states that you need a valid reason to be allowed (being a hunter, working for a security company, taking part in competitive shooting) to weild and buy a firearm, and they are going to introduce a psychologic test in the face of violent crime involving hunters lately.

[Error]

If you have a need to hunt (beyond "I wanna"), then you can get a liscence.

Security doesn't need firearms; not unless you're securing a very high-value whatever.

@Iv Indeed, takes a very big knife to get a 10/sec kill ratio.

[ACH0225]

The best way to own guns in countries is to go for historically significant ones like the Mosin and say you are part of a historical recreation society and that it is an artifact. Usually, if you go for that country's specific gun from WWI(Kar, Mosin, Enfield) it'll pass.