That begs the question as why do countries with large percentages of gun ownership like Canada, Serbia, Sweden, and Finland not have high crime rates? Why are they not as inherently violent as America? 

Everyone is saying that America should be more like Japan, the UK or Australia. America is not an island nation with a homogeneous population and and a history of disarmed peasants. Australia is an outlier because it does have a gun culture. The ban after Port Author Massacre was only on semi-automatic and pump action long arms (rifles, carbines, shotguns, etc.), meaning that pistols, revolvers, and manually operated long arms (bolt action, break action, lever action, etc.) are still legal. 

Japan never had a gun culture because no emperor, shogun or prime minister ever wanted the people the kept down to be armed. Lest their class society come apart. 

And everyone talks about how the cops in the UK don’t carry guns and the public are disarmed. Not so, since the cops in London routinely go on patrol armed with submachine guns and assault rifles because the crime is so bad. And, let us not forget that Northern Ireland is part of the UK, where the British Army and the Ulsterman loyalists regularly have it out with the IRA. Tough gun laws don’t stop militias on both sides from obtaining guns. In Belfast, the police still go on patrol in convoys of Armored Personnel Carriers and armored Land Rovers. 

On top of that, these countries have a lot more that the US does not. A public health service that includes mental health. Lower levels of poverty and inequality. A great sense of community, with none of the Ayn Rand nonsense that Americans are taught. This, with other factors, contribute to a lower crime rate. 

If suddenly there was a universal gun ban in America, it would not be like the UK or Japan. America would be more like Mexico. A place where the people are disarmed and the rapacious police and narcos are heavily armed. America already has a problem with crime and people who should not be cops running around shooting everything that moves. 

A lot of people who dictate to the working class how to live, particularly if they should be allowed to be armed, are usually rich bourgeois elites. They live in walled, gated communities, they can afford private security and the police exist to serve them. Of course they do not want the working class or middle class to be armed. Its just another way to bring us under heel. 

Its up to us to protect ourselves and each other. I know the terror of having someone trying to break in to my house and one in the morning. He could have been in my house in seconds and the cops were minutes away. Having a pistol in my hand gave me peace of mind. The idea of taking another human life makes me sick to my stomach. But, though I don’t want to kill, I sure as hell don’t want to die. 

Here are some quotes to think about. 

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws” -Plato

“Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.“ Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party

“The Workers must armed and organized” -Karl Marx

I am a gun owner, but no, I am not a paranoid nut that thinks there is going to be a universal ban. I passed a back ground check to prove I am not a criminal and not a threat to myself and others. I know that this will not be a universal ban, but for fuck’s sake, stop trying to disarm people who obey the law and do not harm anyone, Yes, we need to keep them out of the hands of sick, dangerous people. but they don’t obey the law in the first place!