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Originally Posted by EdgeXXX
First, most of the criminals here committing crimes involving firearms and using ILLEGAL firearms. So even if you completely banned guns in the US, it would not affect these criminals in the least bit. Second, I could be wrong but I would assume Florida has a slightly bigger problem with gangs, crime syndicates, and drug cartels then Canada does; which results in the larger body count (none of which would be affected by government "Gun Control").  |
I'm actually not from Canada, which has 32 million inhabitants rather than 16 million, but from The Netherlands. "The land of rape and honey" refers to the Ministry album, not to Tisdale.
But apart from that, you do have some good points. Gun control does not have immediate effects, it takes many years and lots of police work before the amounts of guns in circulation starts to go down, and the amount of stolen and illegal firearms with it.
As for the amount of crime related to gangs, crime syndicates and drug cartels, you are partially right. We have much less gang-related crime here, although we have quite a few drug and crime syndicates (their actions actually account for almost all our murders, and they typically target eachother - if you're not a criminal, getting murdered is close to impossible). Still, in the past years we experienced a significant drop in the murder rate, which is widely believed to be caused by even tighter enforcement of anti-gun laws.