mddawson
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Re:Gun Control - 2007/02/28 18:39
I understand that this is a "freedom" issue - the freedom to own a gun. However this comes at the expense of other freedoms like the freedom to walk unharmed through any part of your city. Is that possible in most US cities?
For example I live in Canberra, the capital of Australia (pop. 320,000). Australia has strict gun controls eg no automatic or semi-automatic weapons, no guns unless your job requires it or you are a member of a gun club, etc.
Canberra is the safest capital city in the world, you are 90 times less likely to be murdered than you would be living in Washington DC. I can walk through any part of the city and any time with absolute safety. I have lived here for 35 years and never heard a gun being fired nor do I know of anyone who has been shot.
I also think that Penn's reasoning that we need to be able to protect ourselves from the government is flawed by the fact that the government will always have bigger guns than the public. Would he advocate members of the public owning nukes because the government does?
Unfortunately for the US gun control is impossible as the market is already flooded but for places like Australia it is wonderful.
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