Quoted from beet1e:
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America’s constitutional right to bear arms is an anachronism dating back to the 18th century. In modern times, it is an unmitigated disaster which has given rise to many millions of privately owned guns and an alarming homicide rate, with a tally of more than 300,000 firearms related homicides in the past 25 years. While no law can be 100% effective, Britain has no “gun culture”, and much stricter firearms controls which have contained the annual tally of gun related homicides to a double digit value - fewer than one fiftieth of the American gun-related homicide rate per 100,000 population. 99% of the firearms related homicides are criminals killing criminals. Good thing.
The "no gun" culture of Britain is an anachronism dating back to the 15th century whereas the ruling Monarchy eliminated the possibility of the populace rising up, like we Americans did in the 18th century, and ridding themselves of the totalitarian rule. The Brits have always resented the fact that we did, thus, don't respect our choices in freedoms, because they don't enjoy them themselves to this day.
