Thread: Whats your opinion on automatic weapons?

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Hmmmmm


"Finns have the fourth most firearms in the world per capita (right after United States, Yemen, Switzerland) totalling 1.8 million registered privately owned firearms and 100,000–200,000 unregistered firearms. Gun related homicides are rare, comprising 14% of the total number of homicides, which is comparatively low"



Sounds like maybe you have the guns but not the crime

Edit: Looking closer it seems as though you are starting to get the Russian Mafia influence and Prisoners have increased 30% quite recently...
Your crime stats also show that 75% of crimes are influenced by alcohol, sounds like you guys might look into Prohibition it might curb that crime rate for you...

See guys it is rather easy to look from afar and render judgement...

Pretty much guns, i know, but getting a license for hand gun these days is very difficult, but relatively easy for hunting rifles. I have a good mate who works at the police bear team (SWAT). He didn't get a license for getting a 9mm Glock. He was told that you already have guns at work, you wont need it when off duty.

Street violence or violent burglars are almost non-existent problem here, specially the latter. We have violence but the crimes are rather related to alcohol and mental illness/depression. These two together make things go wrong. It is a cultural thing also but not reason to go into that in this thread about US gun laws. Something should be done, but no prohibition, thanks

In general, violence is a small problem but of course it is a big problem for those who have experienced it. Maybe we have learned something about history or then it is a cultural thing, but using violence is not a first choice; not even the second. And not even for those 'bad guys' whoever they might be. As i wrote before, all life is sacred for most of us.