Total BS. I lived in England for three years recently. We have more gun killings in a couple nights in this country than they have in a year. Can't speak to Germany.
Don't know about all these claims, but John Lott, an expert on gun control, and admittedly a favorite of those who argue against strict gun laws, is on the radio right now and asserts that Britain's murder rate was always low, and actually went up after strict gun laws were passed. He warns against cross-cultural comparisons because there could be a lot of factors in play.
Lott also notes that over half of America's gun murders are concentrated in just 2% of the counties. He mentioned some: L.A., Houston, D.C. In D.C. for example, most are in eastern part of city and tied to drug gangs.
The violence from guns,or at least the bulk of it, seems to have little to do with rural white people, "Rednecks", or NRA members.
Lott also points out that the AR-15 is not a military gun, is not an automatic weapon, but is simply the same as a semi-automatic hunting weapon made to look like a military weapon.
I'm not a gun person, am only passing on what one expert says, and if you have a counter-argument, please feel free to provide countervailing facts, name-calling and emotional arguments don't help.
