Guns, what works and what's just stupid

[EdwardBernays]

17. sorry

Hard to keep track of everything people want me to respond to...

The largest part of gun crime is -- crime. So places with higher crime rates have significantly more gun crime... in America. Not in other industrialised countries that don't have guns really, but in America.

So when the laws are meaningless, as are LOCAL gun laws, and crime is high, as it is in Camden, there's a lot of gun crime.

Where crime is low, gun crime is lower - higher than anywhere in Europe (a point you'll ignore), but lower.

If you have ANY HOPE of lower the US murder rate and the US gun crime rate, both of which are absurdly high, you have to look at a national response to guns, which you've cleverly pointed out.

Local gun laws don't work - only national laws could work, and then only if they're strong enough to actually make an impact.

You do also point out that Americans have some pretty strong issues with impulse control... and people with impulse control issues and lots of deadly weaponry is not a wonderful combo.