Quote: sootyj @ August 7 2011, 11:45 PM BSTOf course no guns equals no guncrime. But if you can't ban or control them all, then the only people who have guns are criminals or the police.
So yes if there was a magic wand that made all guns disapear I'd wave it.
I don't believe in fetishistic ownership of guns.
I simply accept that when the government shares the responsibility for violence with trusted citizens. It reduces all levels of violence.
And to be honestthat's a fact. Really it is.
Even Micheal Moore in Bowling for Columbine ended up concluding the US's murder rate was more to do with social inequality than gun ownership.
There is an urban myth that the police supply or allow the supply of guns to south london drug gangs so they can all kill each other. Ridiculous idea but. blind eyes etc. We have created the Crips style ghettos - south side LA North Side Clapham. Give people no hope and this is what happens.