2011-01-09, 06:46 AM
Satellite Wrote:Yahh right, you don't get it. What I'm saying is that people should need to go through personality and background tests and so on.
We do this in Finland and it works quite well. There is about 0-2 shootings/year. This speaks for itself:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mu...h-firearms
# 4 United States
Finland is not even listed (in the top 46+).
That would've been swell if it had been implemented hundreds of years ago (or just 50. Whenever they became commercially available). There's too many out there now to just say THAT'S IT, NO MORE GUNS because the bad guys can still get them with relative ease and the people who aren't going to be out there shooting people (or at least not good people) won't be able to have a gun to protect themselves in a worst case scenario event.
The solution to the gun issue is not to outlaw guns.
The solution is to make everyone walk around in cast iron armor. Guns will no longer be effective and thus the gun problem will be solved!
You also need to keep in mind that the United States has approximately 60 times the population of Finland, meaning there is that much more potential for criminal activity. Can't really compare your country's successes to the failures of the United States because it's two very different situations.