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We do occasionally see mass stabbings but they're comparatively rare because people tend to try to get away. It's easier to shoot somebody running away than to stab him.

Did I say otherwise? I was just pointing out that guns do cause more damage than other weapons. Guns do kill where other weapons may only injure. People who have no intention to kill do kill because the gun is so powerful.

We should take them away from idiots. Unfortunately, it's mostly the idiots who want them.

I don't think so. As I've said before, it is not rational to think you can defend yourself with a gun. A gun is not a defensive weapon. The only way to win a gunfight is to shoot first.To be responsible gun owners, people would have to understand the capability of their guns - and I don't think most of them do.

I would say it's irresponsible to have a gun in the house that's likely to do more harm than good. Even the US has laws about the civilian possession of explosives, etc.As for "law-abiding" citizens, they also turn Jews in to the Gestapo.

That's probably false. That may be true. But it isn't true because guns make you safer. It's true because Canadians don't own guns for protection. As I've mentioned before, in my lifetime I've met only one civilian (other than collectors) who owned a handgun. (And he had it for sharks, not people.)

Personally, I don't think gun safety in the US can be improved much. It's a bit like trying to prevent drowning in the mid-Atlantic: there's just too much water to ever make it "safe". There are two good ways to prevent more drownings after a drowning tragedy: learn water safety or stay out of the water.

The fact is that Hitler relaxed the gun laws. He did prohibit the Jews from owning weapons, which made it easier for the law-abiding Germans who had guns to march them off to the concentration camps.

I think Wal-Mart should arm its employees to protect its customers from its other customers.

Chances are he's already got one.

That's why it's safer. You don't have one goober pointing it at his best friend and pulling the trigger.

It was The Good Old Days.

Dillinger needed Tommy guns because the police had them, so he stole them from the police.What about body armour? It's not an "arm", technically, but it would be handy to protect me from the police.

Just to be clear: Is it once-a-felon-always-a-felon? Or can you work your way up to ex-felon? If you serve your sentence for a felony, can you then wear body armour to protect you from other ex-felons?

Well, in Canada it would have about as much market as giraffe shoes.