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Quote by: lsbskins1 Then you should not tout the success of their system, and claim it as proof that guns can be safe. Either it is a successful working model or it is an example of government repression. Make a choice.

It's a better system than banning guns.

I found it interesting what happened to the citizens of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Police confiscated their guns, but didn't stick around to protect them from roving gangs of looters.

New Orleans Gun Seizures Allegedly 'Creating More Victims' -- 09/14/2005

Quote by: JaneDoe321 I can't even tie my shoes until I've had a cup of coffee, so the above scenario seems so laborious as to be beyond useless.

Just living in a country where citizens tend to own guns reduces home invasions, it's a strong deterrant for that kind of crime.

Defending the home Thanks to strict criminal laws, working conditions in Great Britain are the safest in the Western world—that is, if your profession is burglary. On the other hand, if you’re a law-abiding citizen quietly staying at home, you’re at much greater risk in the nearly gun-free United Kingdom, than in the gun-happy United States of America. In late October, teacher Robert Symonds, who lived in the London suburb of Putney, was stabbed to death in his home by a burglar. Last week, in Halifax (near Manchester), 71-year-old priest Father Ingwell was stabbed several times by a burglar. The same week, burglars in the fancy London neighborhood of Chelsea stabbed banker John Monckton to death. Terrifying home invasion burglaries are not rare events in England. Overall, Great Britain has a higher violent crime rate than the United States, and a higher burglary rate. Significantly, only about one-eighth of American burglaries take place while the victim is home, whereas over half of all British burglaries do. One reason that British burglars are so much bolder than their American cousins is that only about 4% of British homes legally possess a gun, whereas about half of American homes do. British police administrators require guns at home to be stored unloaded in a safe, and that ammunition be in a separate safe. No American jurisdiction has such extreme “safe storage” requirements. As a result, an American burglar who breaks into an occupied home faces a significant risk of getting shot. As I detailed in an article in the Arizona Law Review, when an American burglar strikes at an occupied residence, his chance of being shot is about equal to his chance of being sent to prison. According to a study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are about half a million incidents every year in which an American burglar is scared away by a victim with a firearm.

Reynolds: Unity in the Virgin - Glenn Reynolds - MSNBC.com