Quote Originally Posted by miles View Post
The gun culture thing is something that I have never understood and to expand it by allowing drinkers in bars to carry a gun around is to me the height of lunacy. Drunk people are not rational and will likely the lose the plot at some point. To have a gun where only fists were before is going to lead to death instead of black eyes. It isn't the Wild West anymore, so it's a shame that the obsession with guns hasn't really evolved into anything more progressive and peaceful.
I quite agree, the US case is interesting because of the 2st Amendment, which at the time it has been written was more referring to white weapons such as knifes, bayonets etc as it were what peoples dominantly had. The Us was also wilder with the evil "Indians" and the real dangers of wilderness. Now, except in perhaps a few very rare places, Wilderness and Indians aren't a danger anymore and guns are neither what it used to be at all....
Personally, I would be all for a limitation of the caliber, bullets in loaders, ban of full automatic guns, prohibition to bear these in any public places and to have a full registry of who has what in order to control the whole process and avoid things like these gun fairs where peoples just can buy things without having to register nowhere neither show I.D if you look over 16.