Quote Originally Posted by Hlleonard View Post
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_...ita_by_country

I seldom post internet links and this one is very easy to find but I thought it was appropriate... It doesn't seem Switzerland is number one on the gun ownership list, we are it seems by maybe a 2 to 1 margin over those folks , why are our crime rates so high if gun ownership is the answer? This data seems to be a few years old but I suspect it is still fairly close.
Lots of folks own a gun in the states, but most folks own much more than just one. There are way too many folks that don't own guns in the states to make it an effective deterrent to crime. Do you think a fool is going into the Dairy Mart and hold the cashier at gunpoint if he knows 1/2 the folks in there are packing.

What Tim_T should have said....everyone own a handgun and CARRY it........Yea baby.

Later,

Geo