nasus wrote on Jan 21
st, 2015 at 6:11pm:
[quote author=longweekend58 link=]Far out, what countries do these people live in to feel that they need to carry a concealed firearm?
I live in Australia, and possibly prior to 2000 I would have agreed with you. However I was different then.
I think the quote goes something like this " I would rather carry and never ever need it, than need it and not carry."
Pistols weigh around 1.3kgs, easily concealable, no big deal, nothing happens, no one will ever know you carried. [/quote]
The USA experience dictates otherwise. More personally-owned guns kill their owners than attackers. Also, a fight among aussies is likely to be done with fists. In USA it is common to escalate to guns. Hence the 50,000 annual death toll from firearms vs our <100 [/quote]
Not certain where you get your stupid inflated, incorrect, and dumb American figures from, some obscure manipulated figures I guess.
In Australia if our figures are <100, IT IS because we bloooddddy well only have 22 Million population as compared to the USA of 330 Million.
Try my figures:
United States 88.8 270,000,000 9,960 3.2
The 88.8 is firearms per person, the figure of 270 million is the actual number, THE 9,960 is the number of homicides by use of firearms, THE 3.2 is per 100,000 of population.
Thanks for posting you bias figures. [/quote]
Way ta shove it up his keister!!