I heard an expert on the T.V. this morning saying the the mentally ill kill between 500 and 600 people in this country every year. It's usually 1 or 2 maybe 3 at a time so it doesn't make the national news...
I'm sure when the Netherlands decided to strictly limit guns that no one said what if the Germans invade and want to round up all the Jews they wont be able to defend themselves. But we can learn from history.
Now I'm not saying that if we control guns that someone will invade and start rounding...
How is it irrelevant ? The person was talking about how it was better to have the strict gun controls they have in the Netherlands, and saying we would be better off with the same laws.
If you don't understand the concept don't try to minimize the relevance...
I didn't say it would have prevented anything did I ? And I didn't say it happened because people weren't armed did I ?
Please don't put words in my mouth.
But I think the 100,000 Jews in the Netherlands would have rather had a chance to die fighting then to be rounded up like sheep and taken to...
Are you interested in the opinions of others ? You say that having very few guns in the hands of the citizens is a good thing. If we could ask the 100,000 Jews that were unarmed and rounded up and sent to there deaths by the Germans do you think they would agree that being unarmed was best for...