[sishow]

This thread has become very political, and i dont normally bother to get political on internet forums ("When in a bar (or forum) dont talk about politics or religion" Has always been a moto of mine!). But i had to make this small point about how I feel!

A gun in anyones hand is a very dangerous weapon! Weather they are trained or not, makes only a small difference to the affect of the weapon when used! A trained person will be more dangerous when using the gun, than the un-trained!

From the statistics I see, the cases of accidental death by a child, from a 'family owned gun' are low. Maybe because most adults in gun owning society's, have the intellagence or thought of mind to place the gun unloaded in a locked place. Therefore removing all danger from the metal object.

But the problem always will be with the people who dont have this 'intellagence' or have got to a point (for whatever reason e.g. Depression, criminal lifestlye, watching too many action films or following Chalton Heston's school of thought) where they want to use the gun, or need the gun around, loaded.

The fact that the most used method to suicide in any walk of life, is the easiest method at hand, must be a good indicator as to the impact of firearms on any society. For instance, the most used method of students/school children is hanging. But for farmers it is a shotgun blast to the head. I know that if I was going to commit suicide, or if i was mentally unstable, it would be harder to me to come to terms with what i was doing if I had to prepare the rope and gallows, then to pick up a shotgun and use it.


Should guns be banned or not is not a question that I have to decide on in Britain. But in my point of view, any guns should be taken out of public use and be stored in sucure locations. They should only be given to licenced people under police supervision and returned to the secure point after use! No firearms stored on private property. And I would ban all replica firearms too!