In regards to you not having time to go for your gun when a criminal attacks you, fine. However, the bystander can go for his. You think he is going to help if he doesn’t have a gun?
As a criminal would you rather have a gun or take a chance using a knife because you know the home owner doesn’t own a gun? All your points are stupid assumptions. A criminal wants to get in and out as fast as he can in the most effective way.[/quote]
Tokyo is the safest major city in the world. Only 59,000 licensed gun owners live in Tokyo.[25] Per one million inhabitants, Tokyo has 40 reported muggings a year; New York has 11,000.[26] The handgun murder rate is at least 200 times higher in America than Japan.[27] The official homicide rate in Japan in 1988 was 1.2 homicide cases per 100,000 population, while in America it was 8.4 homocide cases per 100,000.[28]
Robbery is almost as rare as murder. Indeed, armed robbery and murder are both so rare that they usually make the national news, regardless of where they occur.[29] Japan’s robbery rate is 1.4 per 100,000 inhabitants. The reported American rate is 220.9.[30] People walk anywhere in Japan at night, and carry large sums of cash.[31]
Germany has fairly strict in US terms, but relatively common gun law by European standards. Its population is more than 1/4 of US population.
Murders with firearms are 3% of US number.
Prisoner population is 3.5% of that in US.
Rapes – 9% of US #.
Robberies – 14%.
Car theft – 7%.
But it does have higher software privacy rate.
Now you show me a modern western democracy with stricter gun laws and higher crime rate than the U.S.
