04-02-2013, 09:13 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
The question: How do you keep children safe ?
Maybe you have to accept that you can't.
As a viewer from outside the USA it appears that much of your country has an ingrained love of guns and the need to own them even though there are many who wish it was otherwise. It seems you will have to accept that there are a huge number of guns in public hands and they are not going away. Even if there was more gun control the sheer numbers already out there would make it almost worthless. Looking at the rankings of countries by fire-arm related deaths the USA is way near the top, yes you can proudly say your rate is better than countries like South Africa, Panama and Jamaica but are these the countries you wish to be compared with? The highest placing of a European country is Serbia and the USA has two and a half times the death rate of them. In many areas of comparison I am sure that the USA outranks us in the UK for the better but I am very happy that our rate is less than one fortieth of the USA's. Interestingly because 70% of our rate is made up of suicides and for the USA the equivalent rate is "only" 60% it means our fire-arm related homicide rate is only an eightieth of yours. I guess we find more interesting ways to commit murder!
OK, let rip.
Paul