I’m letting Bill Hicks speak for me on this one:
Like, I was over in England. You ever been to England, anyone, been to England? No one has handguns in England, not even the cops. True or false? True. Now-in England last year, they had fourteen deaths from handguns. FFFFFourteen. Now-the United States, and I think you know how we feel about handguns-woooo, I’m getting a warm tingly feeling just saying the ******* word, to be honest with you. I swear to you, I am hard. Twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. Now let’s go through those numbers again, because they’re a little baffling at first glance. England, where no one has guns, fffffffourteen deaths. United States, and I think you know how we feel about guns-woooo, I’m getting a stiffy-twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. But there’s no connection, and you’d be a fool and a Communist to make one. There’s no connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it, and not having a gun and not shooting someone. There have been studies made and there is no connection at all there. Yes. That’s absolute proof. You know, fourteen deaths from handguns. Probably American tourists, too.
Word. Again…..Word. He couldn’t attend junior college again without a letter from a psychologist, but he was fine to buy an Austrian 30 shot automatic pistol and a f*ckload of ammo. Laurence O’Donnell pointed out today that he wouldn’t have been able to buy the gun in Austria.
Oh yeah, I know…..”he would have gotten it somehow…..”
God this shit makes me angry. Fuck Sarah Palin and her campaign apologists, BTW, on general principles.
Having lived both in England and the US, I have to say this is spot on.
Different culture in the UK. I’m willing to lay odds if UK got the same access to guns as US deaths would go up, but UK would still have lower per capita rate, but then I’m just a snobby Canadian.