nobody has ever been afraid of a home-owner cappin' dey ass,
we've never had a culture of gun ownership. Hardly anyone owns a gun. Even the police don't normally carry them. Crime rates have consistently gone down for decades.
From what I can tell from dodgy internet statistics, the rate of civilian gun ownership seems to be rather an irrelevant factor in the amount of crime and deaths by shooting.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 16:26,
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