Reply #12: I don't think you'll find..... [View All]

[Pert_UK]

I've ever supported knee-jerk, uninformed or blatantly dishonest scaremongering by the anti gun lobby. It's stupid and counter-productive.

I'm in favour of a reasonable level of gun control, not scaring the pants off everyone in the world.

IMHO, it's partly due to the scare tactics of the US Media as a whole that leads people to believe they need a gun in order to defend themselves.

I'm not saying that there aren't places where a gun is a sensible precaution against violence, but I just don't think that the country as a whole is as violent as the press implies....The press build the fear levels and its hardly surprising that people get scared and think they're going to be robbed or killed in their own homes, when in reality it's very rare.