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RE: Should Hand Guns Be Legal In the UK?
Look at the statistics of gun related deaths per 100,000 inhabitants:
- UK (2011): 0.06 homicides, 0.15 suicides
- US (2014): 3.43 Homicides, 6.69 suicides
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate)
Don't you think that more guns available would increase these numbers in the UK.
Sure, guns don't kill people by themselves, people kill people.
But when people have no guns available, they cannot kill with guns.
That is certainly possible. It is hard to know though. Also I'm sure some people would ask if it is more important to give people freedom of choice. For example a lot of people die as a result of cars but we don't ban them. Just something to think about.