Why do Americans love guns so much?

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That's the spirit! Well that explains it.Except for major metropolitan areas that have a lower rate of unemployment.

I think you're not something when you say part of the cause is "there isn't as much work". They say idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Oh, WTG----when one doesn't know what they're talking about, the best bet is to just say ANYTHING. Please point to where I spoke about "border skirmishes"----on-second-thought, nevermind, I'm quite done with this conversation with you, on this thread.

As for your being an immigrant: I'm not buyin', today.

Oh----yeah----here ya go.....

Yeah, I suppose if you believe that inanimate objects are capable of acting on thier own or taking control of people's minds.

It's people I worry about but I don't think people need help.

Yeah, that's true.


Yep----totally!

right here:

"unless Americans are coming to YOUR country, and trying to illegally sell YOUR citizens, guns, it shouldn't matter to any other country, what we're doing."

I established that Americans are doing exactly what you said, and you glossed over it. I can see how committed to accuracy you are if this is your usual method of handwaving away arguments you can't get your head around.
Good thing the truth doesn't require your belief

that would certainly explain your whitenoise posting, it's your rifle doing it one key at a time!

Oh, geez----I almost forgot.....

Dox: EXCELLENT article about the CDC----I totally copied / pasted / saved it (including the URL)! !

Raptor: Those pizza stories blew my mind!! As always, I would LOVE for the conversation to be about mental illness, in regard to when people use guns to commit crimes (especially mass murders)----also, the use / misuse of prescription drugs (I know that Ritalin made ME so angry, when I was on it, that I wanted to hurt somebody).

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I've never been more heavily armed than when I delivered pizza, if I'm going into sketchy neighborhoods late at night with an illuminated sign attached to my vehicle proclaiming that I'm carrying cash, best believe I'm tooling up. I had a positively hilarious encounter with hospital security one time when some nurses ordered and the rookie guard made me go through the metal detector, IIRC I had to check two guns, four spare magazines, two folding knives, a can of pepper spray, and a telescoping ASP baton, it took a good five minutes to check and log all of it, and everyone in the entry to the hospital got real wide eyed by the time I was able to go in. Talking to the regular guys later, I found out that I'd caused quite the incident for them, that they'd been waving delivery people through for years, and they'd had to change the policy because of me. I was pretty proud of that.

That's some story, Mr. D.! Do you realize that most hospital security guards don't carry guns? If there was a problem and I was working, I'd be right on the horn ordering a pizza just so you'd show up with your arsenal!

Why would you be scared of other gun carriers? They break fewer laws than the police, you're safer around them than just about anyone else.



Intriguingly, our murder rate minus the gun murders is still much higher than, say, Japans, and that's assuming no weapon substitution for the gun murders, which, again, points to other factors driving our murder rate.

What is interesting in that chart you found though is the weapon breakdown, which shows that each year about 300 people are murdered with rifles or shotguns respectively, while 1,800 are knifed, 500-600 are bludgeoned, and 600-800 are killed with bare hands, which illustrates why people like me get so frustrated when people bring up "assault weapons, which almost entirely fall into the rifle category, and thus are used in crime incredibly rarely.

I think I'm safer where I am.

So where did this statistic come from? Why compare them to an arbitrary group like the police? If the police breaks a lot of laws then plenty of other groups will break less laws.

Which group of gun carriers breaks less laws? All gun carriers? Law abiding gun carriers? I suppose the law abiding members of any group wouldn't break any laws by definition.

I'd be worried about the gun carriers you carry a gun to protect yourself from. I'd still be worried to be around those guys even if I had a gun. I wouldn't be scared of my gun, I'd be scared of theirs.

This is the part where I'd expect you to say "If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns". The outlaws here don't have them because they can't get them. Blackmarket guns are extremely expensive here and your average two bit thug can't afford one. Organised crime groups can afford them but they're fewer in number than the two bit thugs and they don't usually target civs.

It worked for us, it probably wouldn't work for you guys as you have more guns in circulation to begin with and you have land boarders.Intriguingly, our murder rate minus the gun murders is still much higher than, say, Japans, and that's assuming no weapon substitution for the gun murders, which, again, points to other factors driving our murder rate.

What is interesting in that chart you found though is the weapon breakdown, which shows that each year about 300 people are murdered with rifles or shotguns respectively, while 1,800 are knifed, 500-600 are bludgeoned, and 600-800 are killed with bare hands, which illustrates why people like me get so frustrated when people bring up "assault weapons, which almost entirely fall into the rifle category, and thus are used in crime incredibly rarely.[/quote]Well you'd be better off saving the assault weapons argument for someone who complained specifically about assualt weapons.

I wasn't so much concerned about the rates for rifles but for all firearms. They make up about two thirds.

Without guns the other third would happen the same and some the other two thirds would happen by other means. A cold blooded murder will proceed no matter what but slower methods of killing are harder to pull off on impulse.

You're right that Japan has a very low murder rate. They also have strict gun control laws. I guess these laws didn't leave the Japanese populace defenseless against a wave of armed outlaws.

Why do Americans love guns so much?

How about we say that American gun culture is in response to America having a homicide per capita rate that's relitively high compared to other first world countries, four times Australia's and ten times Japan's. [source]

Sounds like the makings of a vigilante superhero comic. Anyone here good at drawing or inking?

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Doesn't tell close to the whole story, if you lay out a map of the US showing where the crime occurs, it's concentrated in a handful of cities (coincidentally where gun ownership is least common), while most of the country (where the guns are) has a crime rate similar to Europe.