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Statistically, very few. Why does crime skyrocket whenever guns are banned? |
please provide these statistics and links to them.
Meanwhile, will someone please provide the statistics of homicide rates in countries where guns have been banned.
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| Um, you need to go back to school and take US History 101. Writing the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights was basically a suicide pact when it was written. The so-called "revolution" barely existed at that point and any semblance of "success" was a half decade away.... |
Yes, the Declaration was signed about 7 years before the treaty of Paris. Still, We must consider main issues. Back when the second amendment was written, the U.S. was very vulnerable to European attack and needed citizen militia. Also, the reload times for all of these weapons were long. Compare this to today. We no have one of the strongest, if not the strongest, military in the world. Also, the normal handgun of today is more powerful and accurate then the rifles during the revolution. A pistol has multiple shots in a short amount of time.
Now if we spent the same amount of time and money developing Non-lethal weapons, we could probably make a multiple shot weapon with a good sized range that would repel criminals.