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RE: The (ridiculous) weapon laws of the Netherlands
And yet, violent crime has plummeted by about 50% across the board in the US over the past 30 years despite the relaxation of carry restrictions, the sunset of the Clinton Ban on Scary-Looking Guns, and the continued sale of firearms. Blaming gun ownership misdiagnoses the problem and results in a false prescription to cure it.
Oh I agree. If you trust people with driving a 2 ton vehicle 80 mph than you should also trust them owning a firearm. Both items ask for big responsibility and sanity. Banning one but not the other would be hypocritical and irrational.
I was glad today to be able to carry a gun. I wore a pistol when I went outside to investigate some stray dogs roaming the neighborhood. Had they been aggressive, I would have been able to defend myself. Since they were not aggressive, I had no need of it, but who is to say beforehand what the situation would have been?
Here in the Netherlands I am by far the minority who promotes gun ownership. Even our so called "classical / liberal " parties don't promote it, there's only 1 party that wants to make the rules a little more lax but they're very small. There's an irrational fear for guns around here and an irrational trust in the authorities. It all started in the 1960s and on wards with the creation of the nanny state, and there's deeper rooted problem behind this but I can't tell as that would be very controversial, but that hasn't just affected us but the whole of the West.