Do you mean with crime rates crimes committed with a firearm or all crimes? A. e. auto theft?Sir Killa4live wrote:
Here is an question for you = why are the crime rates way lower in country's that have weapons labelled as illegal, than in country's that permit weopons?
AND: Switzerland, where every person who has completed the military service may get his service rifle home and the country with one of the loosest gun laws in europe has an average homicide rate of 1.2 persons per 100000, UK with a maybe no-gun policy has a homicide rate of 1.61, and Scotland even 2.16 per 100000. How that?
Edit: typing errors;
And the guns used for crimes are very often illegal, and a complete disarmament of the normal people will lead to more burglaries etc., because then the criminals, who don't care about gun laws and get their guns at Ivan from the backyard know then, that no one has guns anymore so they can't defend themselves. Result: More burglaries etc.
Last edited by markkos (2007-01-31 12:07:39)