Guns Guns Guns@!!!!!%@#^&$%*@#%^^&

[Kessing / Kenan Allan (COM)]

Your argument is riddled with fallacies.
!) If the US was in a postion where 99% of the population (according to 
your model) could be TRUSTED to carry a gun, then that would indeed make 
for a crime-free enviroment - as would the equal likelihood of 99% of US 
citizens having superman-like powers. Not likely.

2)>  Japan, for example, has a traditional and historical attachment to
]edged weapons, and make the finest swords in all the world (the finest
]in modern times being made by Yasuhiro Kobayashi). The wearing of swords
]has been outlawed in Japan just as the wearing of guns is outlawed here.
]But in Japan, killing by knife is preferred to using a gun. It's quieter,
]knives are cheap and freely available, and leave no bullets which can
]be matched to a weapon still in your possession.
]
]  But the victims are still just as dead.

Relate to us,if you will, the number of blade-based homocides in japan 
every year, and we'll see if it forms 0.1% of US firearm homocides.
No matter what your half-assed justification, the reason the US has the 
highest proportion of firearms death is because it has more guns in the 
non-militray population than ANY other country. Ever heard of Occams 
razor? Don't look for complicated answers when simple ones fit admirably.

3) I really loved your vision of the armed cit militia gunning down them 
evil criminals

Wake up, before you find yourself looking down the barrel, instead of 
talking shit into the ether.