re: #355 FurryOldGuyJeans

Again you totally try to ignore what I was saying, the UK banned guns and yet they STILL have homicides using them.

I’m not trying to ignore what you’re saying - I’m just responding to the anecdotes about Germany and the UK having homicides with firearms. Who would claim that they didn’t? And I don’t think any sensible person that would want to ban firearms in the United States (I’m not one of them by the way) would claim that it would eliminate firearm deaths. My point in posting that was that despite the fact that there are gun deaths in other countries that have banned them - those death rates are much, much lower than in the United States. That is a fact, and it might indicate that banning guns can prevent murders. We don’t know for sure though. However, when people debate banning guns in the United States, which as people here have indicated is surely going to happen now with the spate of violence, pointing out that Germany and the UK have firearm deaths too is just not useful because a quick check of the facts, as I did, indicates that the rates are much, much lower - it doesn’t help your argument.