ok, you seem really confused.. lets elaberate..

1) criminals use guns.
2) the reason they call them criminals is??? because they break the law.
3) pass a law to ban guns.
4) criminals will abide by this law, cause it makes more sense, afterall they don't wanna be shot while breaking other laws.

5) you need to wake up and smell the coffee cause only honest people would obey this law, and they are less likely to kill than criminals..

i live in gun central arkansas, and guns are hardly ever reported as the weapon in a crime.. guns make noise, noise brings unwanted attention. silent weapons are preferred..

Ha, the police, they couldn't catch a cold.

Seriously though, some people aren't interested in waiting for the police if their lives are in danger. You're looking at this in high profile situations like bank robberies and kidnapping where the police would be called in to shoot it out with the criminals. That's not the majority of crime in the US. What are you going to do if somebody tries to break into your house? Sob silently in the corner while you dial 911 and wait 10 minutes for the police to show up?

How about just using a pepper spray, baseball bat a household knife or anything less leathal than a gun as you would both be better off with less harm done as a result of the "Prisoner's Dilemma" in Game Theory. It would also reduce the odds of a break in since they wouldn't have a gun either.

The lack of guns will not make burglary any less problematic. I'm certain that people still get their houses broken into in Great Britain.

And if he has a gun then well I'd better shoot first and ask questions later. Given that I'm in my home turf so to speak and the lights would be off I'd have the upper hand. I'd rather take that risk than for each of us to not have a gun and he beats me to death with a hammer.

Your telling me. Here where I live is a very nice community. The only exception is the level of crime. Commited by dumb-ass teenagers with nothing better to do.

A few weeks ago, 3 teens (2 guys, 1 girl) broke the glass window to a bus stop using a 2-by-4 they had picked up off the ground somewhere. Me and my brother nailed them though and we waited for the cops. They got busted pretty good.

Not even a week after that incident, and only a few days after OC transpo replaced the broken window did some kid throw some eggs on it.

The other day, 2 guys were in the middle of a 4-lane road on their skateboards at 11pm all dressed in black. Looking to get killed?

The school in from of my house is a local meeting place for teenagers to smoke a joint at 10pm when there's no one around and the sun has set.

My house, in the last 6 years, has been broken into twice. Most of my friends houses have been broken into. My house has been egged quite a few times as well. So did my neighboor.

Crime doesnt always involve weapons.

Yak, I'm only talking about burglary in the sense that that's the only possible (and legal?) reason people can use a gun against someone else; otherwise I was talking about violent crime. Of course we still get break-ins, but at least the criminals aren't killed, and the vast majority aren't doing it with a gun in their pocket ready to kill anyone!

If there are violent psychos out there who are willing to attack and kill you, they will do it with a gun or a hammer or whatever, but how many people do you think there are who feel much more confident attacking someone or stealing someone when they're carrying a gun?

And Orph- I ask you again why you seem to think it's ok to keep a gun for "self defence" (i.e. shooting and probably killing someone) but so absolutely wrong to kill an unborn child?! And yeah, it's totally my opinion that you and other people are homophobic, it doesn't really bother me, but the point is that what does it matter if your potential president wants to ban it- I'm sure you have bigger things to worry about, e.g. petrol prices. What were their energy policies? Bush wants more oil- preferably from Alaska, but he still needs to get it from foreign countries- whilst Kerry wanted more alternative energies. I'm sure you'd love driving around in a solar/hydrogen powered bus for 1/1000th the price of oil...

BUT I guess there's no point in going on about it all. Bush will do some things "right" and I'm sure horribly f**k up a lot of other things, but life is terribly unpredictable and I'm sure very little will go to plan!