AcademyofDrX wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:Their parenting is most likely superior to the US as well, prompting most children to be more responsible. Not sure how competent their cops are.
Yes, I'm sure the parenting is the primary explanation, doesn't have anything to do with the comparative gun ownership rates. Japan: 0.3 per 100 people, US: 120 per 100 people. I would prefer to keep gun politics out of the thread entirely, but if that's too much to ask, maybe we should start talking facts and not nonsense.
The number of guns is irrelevant. It only takes 1 gun to do damage if someone thinks it's acceptable. If people were responsible with them to begin with (which in most cases start when they're children and learn to follow behavior examples of the adults in their lives) there wouldn't be a need for laws prohibiting
toy guns because the chances that a child would be wielding a
real gun would be practically zero. Either the kid's parent would know to safely keep it away, or the kid would know not to touch it even if it's accessible. When I was a child we had firearms around and I was told only once not to touch any of them without adult supervision. I'm still here and I never shot anyone.
And the fact that you dismiss parental accountability as "nonsense" shows just how faulty your thinking is. You also fault cutlery for the obesity problem in the US instead of people's lack of sense in using them. And to be clear, I'm talking about handguns that are easier to replicate as toys, and what Megatron was in TF:TM. I'm not in favor of people (or ANYONE) owning what is termed by anti-gun people as "assault rifles."
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