Coming from two countries where guns a scarce and regulated... I find the idea of liberalised ownership of guns to be quite disconcerting. I definitely agree that reason and talking is always going to be a much better alternative... and that is helped by keeping the tools of violence a little bit further away!


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To clarify my experience is in the US where Madonna hails from and not in your nation.  This is just my view from here as I am not not the ground in your country.

Honestly you can view it anyway you wish. As a gun owner and supporter of "all to keep and bear arms", so you know my stance.   Firstly, you have to examine the statistics that you are viewing.  These deaths include suicides (which most likely would be done with another method) and justified homicides such as those that are a result of a police incident.  What they don't state are two main points.  For the amount of firearms owned by citizens in the US and its vast size our gun deaths are fairly low.  Additionally, there is no metric that shows how many lives private gun ownership has saved.  If someone tries to hurt or rob you and you pull a gun and the person runs you may have just stopped a murder.  Often when those shootings that are so publicized and pushed by media happen ypu never hear about (or hear much less) when a gun owner takes doen someone with evil intent.  There are bad people everywhere and if you don't think that a knife wielding attacker can kill you faster (actually proven fact) than one with a gun you are wrong.  Now here's the best part Madonna is talking about gun control but won't leave her home without private security.  Bet she doesn't care that I dont have a security team so when someone attacks me because of say my watch or wallet I can't do what she will.  She will be shielded and then the attacker either subdued or killed by her security.  I am my family and my owns protection. Just my view and everyone's willing to have one. Is worth noting that private gun ownership does weight into other countries invading nations as well and governments harming citizens.  Just saying.  Thanks for the view and have a good one.

I come from Canada where people would rather say sorry, than fire a gun haha

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Very interesting thoughts. I also agree with you. We never needed guns in Portugal and we shouldn't need them, in a sane society.

I know that Americans have that reasoning of having weapons to protect themselves from the Government, in case the Government turns on them... but that is a stupid reasoning, really. Why? Because they have tanks, planes, ships, bombs of all kind.

The US Citizens picking up guns against the government would be like me trying to fight a pack of 300 lions with a single slingshot. They are delusional, if they think they have a chance.

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Being the American in this bunch.... 
Yes deaths and accidental shootings due to guns are out of control. The laws, changes or what have you that people like Madonna want changed will not affect those who they are intended to control. Any type of restriction or change will only hurt those that have obtained their weapons legally. 

The only answer is to remove them completely. That will never happen. Most 'gun toting' Americans are those that actually collect them, go hunting and have a healthy respect for what a gun is capable of. 

There are more and more stories coming out about those that have managed to stave off an attack due to having a gun of their own. In fact, more an more states are not requiring permits for conceal and carry. Which works in opposite of what gun control wants.  To be honest there is no real threat of the citizens turning on the government. Although there are times we probably should. 

If someone is intent on harming another it will happen. If we do keep up this thinking of taking everything away, then we better pull fertilizer from the shelves. Timothy McVeigh taught us that lesson... oh wait you can still purchase everything he did to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City. 

Violence of this nature is from ignorance, frustration and lack of hope. When you see no other way out, people tend to lean towards violence. 

So how do you fix something of this nature? How do you affect those that have guns illegally, those that really do have no reason to have access to them without harming the rights of the populus? 

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