[punky]

Turkey doesn't need a knee-jerk obsessive gun control policies like we have. After all that won't reduce gun crime. Gun crime has gone up year after year since Dunblane, and so has knife crime.

I feel sorry for the parents, my heart really goes out to them, especially with the callous comments they have recieved. I don't have a child and noone has killed a member of my my family *touches wood*, so I can't pretend to have that level of emotion, but I am pretty sure if one of my family members was run over, I wouldn't try and ban cars.

The stats speak for themselves. The areas in the US with looser control policies have less gun crime than stricters states. Canada has proportionally more guns than the US, but with much few gun crime and deaths. Guns don't kill people, stupid people kill people. i'd rather deal with the problem of stupid people than guns.

Banning things never has, and never will work. If people can import drugs which smell, you don't think people can import a lump of metal that doesn't? Banning something brings it under the control of criminals and escalates the problem. People wonder about gun control and Columbine. Most of the people wonder about gun control and how it would have affect Columbine. It wouldn't. More people were killed by explosives than shot, and explosives most definately are illegal. Didn't stop the kids did it?

Shooting fans aren't bulletproof, and neither are our familes. We don't want to give psychos guns anymore than you guys do, but these crushingly obsessive policies on guns don't work. If you ban something, all you do is oppress the law abiding people and make it so only the criminals have guns.