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A few months ago I watched an episode of Penn and Teller's "Bullsh*t" about gun control....I am afraid this episode really was "Bullsh*t". The classic, IMO, was a woman who went to a market to do the shopping with her father and a guy came in with guns a blazing. Her father was killed in the foray, as were some others. She said that had she been allowed to carry concealed she could have stopped him.
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Hehe, reading that I started laughing.... imagine everyone carries guns, the woman see's the guy shooting people at random so she starts shooting him.... someone see's her shooting someone and thinks '****, a mad woman' and starts shooting her... someone see's him.....
If someone with a gun walks into a situation where there are already people shooting each other, they are likely to use it right? But which one to shoot?
Ever seen a pingpong ball dropped in a field of loaded mousetraps? Thats the kinda image I get.
Yeah I know it's not gonna happen like that, 'tis just what flashed up in my mind as I read.
I remember a music video clip, can't remember who it was(Pennywise or something like that), but now and then they flashed up the number of people per year killed in various countries by a gunshot.
Australia was the first mentioned with 10 deaths, Sweden with 13, etc etc. The UK was only a couple hundred or something like that, USA was the last mentioned with over 27,000 deaths.
I have no idea where they got their numbers from or how accurate they were, but if they're only slightly close, and even after 'normalising' it's still pretty lopsided - Not sure that the USA's population is 2,700 times that of ours!
So is it the guns or the people?
Knives are weapons too in certain hands, and I'm sure there are many deaths a year from knives, but can a person walk into a university/school/shoppingmall with a knife and kill 20 people in a couple of seconds? Maybe if they're ex-commando or something rediculous like that.....
Dunno. It's a problem, but not mine 'coz I live in a country with it's own problems.