<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Consider this: we live in a country that is "middle-of-the-road" with guns, which is the worse possible spot to be in. That means that guns are fairly easy to acquire, yet most people don't exercise that right. So, only the guys committing crimes are going to have gun, which is easy to acquire.
In a place like the borders of Norway, it's illegal to NOT own a gun. The government will provide you with a gun, if you don't have one. What does this mean? This means that a guy going to be robbing a bank with be faced with 30-40 ARMED civilians, who won't hesitate to shoot him. He can't watch them all. This lowers crime overall, not raise it, because the majority of the people with guns are the average citizen, not the criminal.
In the US, anybody committing a crime with a gun is going under the premise that he has the advantage, a weapon that kills. In a grand majority of cases, this is correct, as you can walk into a bank and there's a good chance that NOBODY has a gun.
Also consider the fact that this country has the biggest military in the world. It is because of this, and ONLY THIS, that people consider themselves "safe". Canada and Mexico have a lot to thank because of our large military. Now, I'm one to think that our military should be greatly reduced (so that the UN has more power), and our own population be armed further.
I also believe that the research of non-lethal weapons should be persued with great interest. This would greatly promote arming our citizens without the risk of accidential deaths, including police shootings. If we can produce a non-lethal weapon with the same stopping power as a gun, that could replace the gun, and thus solve a lot of problems.</div>
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