The facts on the UK are so misconstrued it's ridiculous. Fact 1- the year in question, was in fact 2011, where that corporate stooge Piers Morgan mistakenly poisoned the public with the "34" gun deaths. The number in fact was 59, not a large number, but as I've stated before, a vast number of gun deaths go unreported. The major points most TV shows leave out is the European Union has declared the UK with the 2nd highest overall crime rate in the EU. Their violent deaths per-capita are nearly 4 times that of the US. The United States not even in the top ten in the world in violent crimes per 100,000 persons at 466. the UK is 1st with around 2,000 per 100,000. We actually rank 28th in the world in actual gun murders at 2.97 per 100,000. More Americans were shot and killed by police in 2011 than were killed by "crazy" people with guns in 2011 and 2012.
The problem in Chicago is evident. The less armed the public is, the higher the crime rate. When criminals know all they have to face is a handgun, (not as accurate shooting in the dark, smaller clips = more time taken to load, etc.), they can calculate their efforts. If the legal chance exists that the house or person they rob may have a semi, or fully automatic with a good size clip, their ability to randomly attack is significantly diminished.
"If guns were the same as they were in 1787......"
A large amount of fire arms were developed during the founding of our country, and to think that the fore fathers, with their wisdom so vast and perceptual, enough so as to establish the greatest document and testament to the experiment that is America, would not have thought that gun technology would advance beyond their time is absolutely ridiculous, and an insult to the authors of the Constitution.
The reason we have the 2nd Amendment is plain and simple. National Defense. We, the People, are the militia. The only reason we have not had a full scale invasion by a foreign military is because of our armed populous. The Commander of the Japanese forces in WW2 said the very words " in America, there is a rifle behind every blade of grass", and this remains the biggest safety net we have against actual terrorism. Our military is spread halfway across the world, involved in wars we have no business in, so how, pray tell, would they be effective to defend us when it takes them 17 hours to get home? If we are disarmed as a public, we leave our lands open to attack from abroad.
