Re: Time to get the fuck out of the US or stand up and fight
Now i'm no expert on sociology and i haven't done a huge amount of research, but i'm pretty sure gun attacks aren't highest in places that have huge gun control. Australia has much higher gun control than America and gun attacks are reasonably insignificant here, compared to America where we ship our army medics to get training in how to treat gunshot wounds.
I think the amount of violence in America is due to deeper set sociological problems than just gun control or the availability of health care. I would continue this train of thought but it would just be worthless conjecture from here on out.
I meant in terms of inside America, there are literally guns everywhere here, so I think the laws, or lack therof are not really comparable.
Legally owned guns in America to Australia: at least 235,000,000(10 years ago, sorry didn't get a number of anything recent): 4.25 million
Population 304,000,000:21,000,000
Aika said:
Unsure about this. If I had to mug someone, I would much rather pull a gun on someone who might be armed from a foot or two away - I would be confident I could shoot before they could pull a gun on me. However, when you pull a knife on someone you risk them being more skilled in self defence than you - I'm pretty sure if I tried to pull a knife on a black belt of most martial arts I'd find myself with a knife to my neck before I knew what had happened.
Anyone who is versed in self-defense knows the true danger of fighting someone off that has a knife and knows how to use it. Any idiot can buy and use a gun, what is the risk of running into someone who knows self-defense to such a degree, they can successfully defend themselves against a knife. And we have certain laws that prevent those with such training of killing in self-defense because they should know better, so the situation of getting your own knife turned on you most likely won't end in your death while the gun will.
Mega Man Trigger said:
Bruce Lee once said, "If someone pulls out a knife on you, they're at a disadvantage, because they are only thinking with one weapon, while you have four." So yeah, in other words, I agree with Aika.
People who don't know how to use knives, or any melee weapon. I made the same argument with me and my friends making "Rules of Cinema," one of which was The villain always can hold his own with the hero, but the second he picks up a weapon he's dead. And yeah, that's for those looking for a killing blow, but all self-defense/martial arts teaches that the guy mugging you is not trying to kill you, or else he would have.
