Reply #90: Can you explain the green line then? [View All]

How is it that the UK, which has been sharply increasing gun-control laws since 1989 (retroactively,too... all guns must be retrofitted to meet new legal requirements. No grandfathering) can have homicide rates going up, while the US has been going down?


I believe it's because of the superior social institutions in Europe. Those other industrialize nations you're speaking of also have things like universal health insurance, more mandatory paid time off, more family leave, better and more education that is typically free or nearly so, etc.


Given a choice between the Dems spending political capital on a new assault weapons ban or on legalizing marijuana, I'll pick the pot every time because that will do far more social good than fretting about if a gun has both a bayonet luy AND a flash surpressor.