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Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner
Gun laws have nothing to do with it, obviously.  |
Frankly, it doesn't. Legal or Illegal, if someone wants a gun, they'll get it. They'll buy it illegally, they'll have some smuggled, or they'll simply steal one from someone. Hell, its not outside the realm of possibility that they would have them illegally manufactured. Gun control is like drug control... impossible, but possible to reduce it to an "acceptable" level. Like Azure posted, Japan does not have very strict gun laws, and they have shootings too, but at a much lower rate than Canada.
Its a human flaw and with that, a societal one, not a political one. We share a very similar societal structure with the United States, and most of the "Western" nations.