If we are going to have this discussion, we need to consider this:
Oh, yes, I forgot: the government can only confiscate legal guns, because it generally cannot find the illegal ones.
The latest Government figures show that the total number of firearm offences in England and Wales has increased from 5,209 in 1998/99 to 9,865 last year - a rise of 89 per cent.
In some parts of the country, the number of offences has increased more than five-fold.
In eighteen police areas, gun crime at least doubled.
The statistic will fuel fears that the police are struggling to contain gang-related violence, in which the carrying of a firearm has become increasingly common place.One wonders where all these firearms come from in a country that had large-scale gun confiscation as a government policy.
Oh, yes, I forgot: the government can only confiscate legal guns, because it generally cannot find the illegal ones.
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That being said, the shooting still would still start and I would support the resistance movement. Our right to bear arms is the last check we have to fend off an ever-growing Federal expansion of control. If our liberal friends wish to see gun violence go down, the last thing they would want to happen is see the Feds try to take them away from law-abiding citizens.
This is a dynamic largely unrecognized.
Can you prove that statement?
I second that. Please elaborate. I find the tax code ridiculously complex but I've never turned to violence. Yet. ;-)
I agree!
Maybe you need to hang out with more '"powerless people"?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=anger-management-self-control
The number of homicides in the UK has actually dropped from 750 in 1998/99 to 550 in 2011/12.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9411649/Graphic-how-the-murder-rate-has-fallen.html
"The more bureaucracy and laws they pass beyond a certain point, the more folks who can't handle complexity will turn to violence."
I read the article you linked to and I don't see where it backs up your claim.
I have not had a chance to do more than a quick Google search and I am dismayed to find so little. Maybe I'm wrong. I'll look more later.
I draw on personal experience specifically with alcoholics. They frequently take the frustration of dealing with bureaucracy personally. I have known many "thug" types that do the same. I think what I am describing is along the lines of Robin Good and vigilante justice.
The firearm homicide rate in the UK is only 1/30th of the US.
An even more interesting comparison are the non-firearm homicide rates.
Back of the envelope math from the link below, gives:
Non-firearm homicides in US = 4,221
Non-firearm homicides in UK = 580 (equivalent to 2,900 US)
The non-firearm homicide rate in the US is 45% higher in the US vs. the UK.
So what's wrong with Amerika, ain't just guns.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/335-156/12554-58-murders-a-year-by-firearms-in-britain-8775-in-us
New York Daily News reporter Douglas Feiden suggests one option for the new legislation that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has promised: Feiden defines "assault weapons" as "flesh-piercing, fast-firing, killing machines." There is another term for that kind of weapon: a gun.
Jeez, could we have an intelligent conversation?