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ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Are you in a country that completely bans guns (which would in turn severely limit the number of guns in criminal hands)?

Im referring to the US where that is unlikely to ever happen. Plenty of people live in neighborhoods where crime is a problem and the criminals have guns. It makes sense for those people to arm themselves for protection.

Yes, I do live in a country where owning anything other than a shotgun is more or less always going to be illegal, and owning a shotgun isnt easy. Before that I lived in the UK, which is mostly the experience Im speaking of.

Criminals do still have guns, and Ive not been entirely sheltered from dealing with them. However, the number of criminals who have them would be significantly lower than in the US.

My original response however, was to refute the idea that if you live in a rough area it just makes sense to have a gun. Nothing was said about it being in the US, though I still think that the issue there isnt that the criminals have guns, its that your police officers arent up to the task of dealing with that situation.