sea_changer (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sea_changer) wrote in metamal_english, |
Living in a country, the U.S., where there are 200,000,000 firearms in private hands out of a population of around 280,000,000, I can't say I feel safer. In fact, I feel just the opposite and feel that we would be better off without them. I must admit though, I also own firearms. As far as the argument that the average citizen needs a weapon to protect themselves from violence, I know statistically in America people use firearms on themselves, their spouses, their boy and girlfriends, family members, friends and acquaintances. Perceptions to the contrary, Americans, for the most part, do not shoot strangers. Cases of stranger on stranger deadly violence tends to be the exception rather than the rule. The Koreans are better off without them.
