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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please point to a story where strict gun control reduces gun deaths? DC has the strictest controls in the country, but some of the worse gun violence in the country. Ever occur to anyone that there is a major breakdown in the fabric of families? Particularly a near complete absence of responsible fathers?[/quote]

It hardly matters what the gun control laws are if the jurisdiction next to you hands them out at the county fair.

There are so many countries with strict gun control, and they have low homicide rates and certainly low gun homicide rates.  Our homicide rate is 3.5x the homicide rate of Great Britain, and then as you look at the major democracies it gets worse from there.

The conservatives will dance around and say it's not apples to apples.  But we have immigrants, they have immigrants.  We have poor people, they have poor people (although they treat them better).  The only logical explanations are (1) we are a particularly homicidal people, which seems impossible because we are an "exceptional" nation, or (2) the availability of guns increases the rate of homicide.

It's heartbreaking but I think in the last month I read about two or three area children killed by accidental gun shot, and then there was recently a police officer who killed his own son, who was entering a hotel room.  I recall one area crime recently stopped by a citizen with a gun, and then I'd have to go back to that woman in Oklahoma who shot two intruders breaking into her home.[/quote]

Um, we have pretty horrible social problems as compared to the UK.  We have a generation of youth that have no respect for their own lives, the lives of others, and they are having babies at a rapid rate. There is a complete breakdown in the family and accountability and total tolerance by the communities that surround them.

There are pleanty of guns in communities with entact families and shared values and you don't see dead school kids at the playground caught in the cross fire.

Canada has no shortage of gun owners, but quite the dearth of violent gun related crime. It boils down to family values and the EXPECTATIONS of society and community. This is what our violent communities are lacking.[/quote]

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