Re: [Marxism] U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people

[dave.walters@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I think Walter's comments on this reflect a more liberalish interpration of 
'guns' than the reality of 
gun owndership and the real problem of violent crime in America.

Guns are banned in Britian, for example, yet gun crime is increasing 
expontentially. So in their case 
gun ownership of the legal variety is totally irrelevant to the rise in this 
crime rate. (guns are smuggled 
into the UK with drugs, often, and used in crimes).

Canada, which despite being further down on the list, still has a gun ownership 
level comparible with 
the US. In rural areas of Canada, I'm told, gun owndership actually is greater 
than in the US. Yet 
violent gun crimes are much, much less due to the the fact that violance in 
Canadian society is much 
less than it is in the US. One could argue, therefor, that "guns don't cause 
violence" and that any form 
of gun banning (they have very strict gun *control* laws, but no banning of 
guns) would be totally out
-of-place in the Canadian state.

I suspect that if you banned gun ownership in the US (as M. Moore would no 
doubt like to do) 
violent crime employing illegal guns would go down...not at all. Largly because 
criminals that use 
guns acquire them illegally through smuggling anyway and crime itself is a 
fucntion of class society, not 
the "availability of guns". It's a false flag issue that should be left to the 
defenders of the liberal wing of 
the Democratic party and should stay out of the left's program.

David Walters
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