"White 44.6%
Hispanic or Latino 27.5%
Black or African American 25.1%
Asian 11.8%
American Indian 0.4%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.1%
Other races 26%"

That's 135.5 percent.

Women particularly should have the right to some form of weaponry defence, even if it's just mace or pepper spray. As it stands, there are many places that women either can't go alone, or if they do, they leave themselves vulnerable to attack.

There is also another dimension to this issue - the combination of increasing militarisation of the police throughout the Western world and the escalation in legislation that robs us of our civil liberties (routinely sold to us as counter-terrorism).

Few people see the connection between these trends and the way that the issue of gun control is being pushed so hard in the Western media. Throughout history, an unarmed citizenry has been one of the key ingredients in the rise of fascist regimes. Ignore that at our peril.

Just to keep scaring us, the US is constantly cited as the benchmark society made violently dysfunctional by too many citizens carrying too many guns. However, the US is, and always has been, a dysfunctional society riddled with social injustice.

Other countries like Canada, with similar gun laws and with similar amounts of weapons in the community do not have the gun-crime rates of the US. Switzerland actually requires its citizens to own guns and to keep up regular training in their use. But even these countries are now coming under increased international pressure to disarm their citizenry. On has to wonder why.

Killarney,
The stories about gun control and Fascism are largely a myth, in Nazi Germany anyone who had a valid reason to own a firearm could get a licence and buy a gun, it was actually the Weimar Republic which outright banned firearm ownership.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/01/hitler-stalin-gun-control
Jews were not allowed to own guns after 1933 because they were considered alien enemies of the state and it's only subversive, pro Jewish commentators like Alex Jones and his cult following of fools and lunatics who equate gun control with Fascism.
I think we've adequately explained the problem with gun crime in the U.S and via the same logic expressed in the paper on genetic pacification we could have predicted the rise of violent gun crime from the 1960's and it's subsequent decline in the 1990's as more and more black and Mexican men with a pre-dispositon to violence were culled from the herd, so to speak.

Australia's crime rates and murder/violence issues are much less than many other countries.
Why on earth would we want to change our gun laws then?
We live in the best country in the world and don't need to change our ways now.

JOM, can you ever write anything on this forum at all without bringing up the colour of people's skin? You are paranoid about it!

LOL
Imagine road rage in Australia if everyone had a gun.
Does everyone carrying guns mean I can blow away bad guys with impunity? Look out the next idiot who deliberately passes too close to me while I'm riding my bike.

More guns = More dead people!

Jay you have no credibility here, you're a racist and a holocaust denier.

We have been over this many times, just search the internet for the number of accidental deaths and injuries to kids finding their parents guns. There even some videos of toddlers shooting their parents.

As with most crimes, shootings are generally between people who know each other. In Australia, it's often Men killing their partners, That what we should be talking about , not the merits of packing a firearm.