Oh gun laws, these leaves me so incensed. Coming from a land of relatively strict gun control, Australia it just seems so senseless that other countries *cough* the US *cough* can't get on board. Yes I know the Constitution and what not, but the reality is gun availability promotes gun crime, if you can get to them, you can shoot them. I was watching a TV show whereby the surviving victim of a massacre said that we need concealed gun laws so gun crime goes down. To be honest I don't see the logic in this, because concealed weapons would not have stopped the man walking into the restaurant and murdering 22 innocent people. As Chris Rock puts it we need "bullet control" because if bullets cost $1,000 each, you sure wouldn't be firing them into anybody innocent!
In 2009 of the 13,636 murders in the US over 9000 of these were as the result of guns. The US ranks fourth with gun related deaths, to Colombia, Thailand and top of the list South Africa with over 31,000 gun related deaths per year. Phillip J Cook estimates that gun violence costs America about $100 billion annually. The US gun crime rate is eight times higher than any of its economic counterparts, and quite frankly it's time to pop a cap in the ass of anybody who thinks having guns stops gun crime, because you're wrong.
