re: #289 William Barnett-Lewis

there are plenty of other European examples - Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, and so on - that show that there is a place where regulation does not have to be too onerous to allow for sporting, hunting & even self-defense firearms.

The other thing to remember, however, is that even with fairly harsh gun control, you can still have high gun and other violent crime. See Brazil and elsewhere.

Heck, here in Germany, I went down to the local gun club for their open house day and fired off a cap-and-ball pistol just because I was curious to see how they handled…