This for me has been an interesting thread. Dowding might be amused to know that I got the idea for this thread from an interview between Robin Day and Arthur Scargill many years ago. Day asked Scargill (miners’ president) to describe his vision of utopia. And then, turning to his audience of several hundred, asked who would like to
live in Scargill’s utopia. I think only one or maybe two said they would.
We’re all aware of crime levels in various countries, and we’ve all seen what happens in countries like America when guns are made freely available. A homicide tally of over 10,000 some years – 13,000+ in 1992 – with the vast majority of these homicides being carried out with handguns. (I appreciate that shovels/cars/knives could also be used, but a gun is just so much more effective and convenient, and can achieve results at long range.) That compares with fewer than 100 in any year in Britain, where we have the same social/ethnic difficulties as America, and drugs/gangsters to go with it. But we have relatively few guns – hence the disparity in our homicide stats.
A lot of people in the US crow about being able to get guns when folks in other countries cannot, so I wanted to know who would if they could. I got a couple of YES votes from Germany, but ALL the other voters were against unrestricted gun sales in their country, whether that be by quantity or type of weapon.
List of countries with people who voted NO to an unrestricted supply of guns - Bermuda
- France
- England (and Wales)
- Finland
- Spain
- Poland
- The Netherlands
- Italy
- Iceland
- Germany
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Argentina
- Australia
- Belgium
There’s also a vote from Takeda – not sure which European country he is from.
What’s almost as interesting is that in a thread that was clearly intended for
non-Americans and people living
outside the US, two of the three people who posted the most times in this thread are diehard pro-gun Americans. Wonder why that is.
;)
