Considering the current events I'm beginning to question the ban of weapons in the population...
I'm not talking about a country where there are weapons and you ban them, cause that doesn't work (bad guys don't just hand out their weapons) but about a country where weapons are banned and could be unbanned.
Here are the pros and cons I see in a country with ban on weapons:
-Pros
- Lower murder rate because knife are less deadly
- Less or even no mass shootings and no accidents like "4 year old killed brother playing with dad weapon"
- Less police kills because policemen don't have to be paranoid as 99% of criminals don't have guns
-Cons
- You're completely at the mercy of your government. You can't do anything against it as angry as you can be
- You have to rely solely on state police, which can be great but only if it's efficient
Problem to me is that the submissive state of the population is really a huge red flag. When I see how powerless European citizens are currently...
When you got riots government just increase number of policemen...
Would you support freedom of weapons trade in a European country without weapons? Considering freedom of trade doesn't mean without huge regulations of course.
You know, I've debated this SO many times with myself but I think we're not really looking at this deep enough.
I'm from the UK and it's easy for me to dismiss Americans and their guns because I, as a citizen of the UK, feel safe to walk out at night. If someone knocks on my door at 3am my first thought is - wow, who needs my help? Rather than get out my 50 Cal to create some huge massive holes in someone because I'm scared for my family's safety. But it's easy for me to do this because our culture is so anti gun that if you polled us you'd probably see at least an 80% swing in anti-gun laws.
When Dunblane happened here they did a voluntary knife and gun giveback without prejudice and the country was so overwhelmed by what happened the Police couldn't cope with everything they got back. But it's in our culture to not need/want a gun. We generally live in safety, and if you're not dodging bullets in a big-city slum then the chances are you're probably going to live out your natural life as best as you can.
It's our culture.
Now I've only visited America once. I can't comment on the culture but as far as I'm aware of it guns are an integral part of society there. So much so that it's written in your most freeing of laws. Can I judge? Perhaps not. But then again you can't judge me for not wanting a gun, because you don't know what it's like either.
Personally I'd like to see guns banned in America, but that's just me. The whole small militia to overthrow government is never going to happen. That stuff all ended with drone strikes, guided missiles and nuclear warheads. I doubt there will ever be a violent overthrow of government.