Jolena, if I ever go to the US I will do so knowing that the proliferation of firearms means I am at ten times more risk than I am in Britain. I truly don't understand the American obsession with guns: a large proportion of Americans react to gun control ideas as if you had suggested compulsory castration of Americans at birth. If you look at the statistics from the rest of the world it is clear that you are needlessly endangering yourselves with this policy, but the response is to ignore that information as if the US is somehow utterly different from the rest of the world.
The thing that is really, really funny is that you come from a place with a firearms death rate of one per 10,000 and the State Department warns you of the "risk of terrorism" in Qatar, where the firearms death rate is very close to zero.
If Qatar had the US firearms death rate, we would have three or four shooting deaths A WEEK here. Scary, eh? How much safer do you guys thing having gun shops on every corner would make us? Obviously, much safer...
Jolena, if I ever go to the US I will do so knowing that the proliferation of firearms means I am at ten times more risk than I am in Britain. I truly don't understand the American obsession with guns: a large proportion of Americans react to gun control ideas as if you had suggested compulsory castration of Americans at birth. If you look at the statistics from the rest of the world it is clear that you are needlessly endangering yourselves with this policy, but the response is to ignore that information as if the US is somehow utterly different from the rest of the world.
The thing that is really, really funny is that you come from a place with a firearms death rate of one per 10,000 and the State Department warns you of the "risk of terrorism" in Qatar, where the firearms death rate is very close to zero.
If Qatar had the US firearms death rate, we would have three or four shooting deaths A WEEK here. Scary, eh? How much safer do you guys thing having gun shops on every corner would make us? Obviously, much safer...
Well done Qatar!