Theos-Talk Archives (June 1997 Message tl00236)

At 01:25 PM 6/13/97 -0400, Patrick Alessandra Jr. wrote:
>> It depends on the intent of those who have the guns.
>>  The more people who have guns who will only use them for self-defense,
>> assuming as many of those who will use them for immoral purposes have
>> them as they do in the United States, the safer society will be.
>
>     Indeed...in fact in the U.S. where most people own guns there is
>the lowest crime rate.  Deterrence works best at the current societal
>stage.
        Yes but this is just the US - a somewhat immature nation. I recently
saw a bunch of UN statistics ... turns out that England - where as Alan
points out very few guns circulate - has one of the lowest per capita murder
rates in the civilized world, *far* below that of the US.