Also Canada is proven better, especially in education.
It is the same as the U.S. The schools are no longer educating, they are indoctrinating in how to be liberal. Their emphasis is in putting evolution as a fact, homosexuality as being normal and abortion is the only answer to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
I would stop the intruder but not with a lethal weapon!
An armed intruder with the intent of killing you and your family will not be that easy to stop. A non-lethal weapon is no match for a gun in a killers hands.
Some interesting facts on guns and gun laws:
In 1968, the U.K. passed laws that reduced the number of licensed firearm owners, and thus reduced firearm availability. Their homicide rate has steady risen since then.
British authorities saw a 35-percent increase in gun violence in 2002 alone – not so ironically, that's just six years' removed from a nationwide ban on personal ownership of most firearms.
Australia banned private ownership of most guns in 1996, crime has risen dramatically on that continent – armed robberies by as much as 45 percent.
In the U.S.:
Forty states, comprising the majority of the American population, are "right-to-carry"
states. Statistics show that in these states the crime rate fell (or did not rise) after the right-to-carry
law became active (as of July, 2006). Nine states deny or restrict the right to carry.
Crime rates involving gun owners with carry permits have consistently been about 0.02%
of all carry permit holders since Florida’s right-to-carry law started in 1988.
After passing their concealed carry law, Florida's homicide rate fell from 36% above the
national average to 4% below, and remains it below the national average (as of the last reporting
period, 2005).
The serious crime rate in Texas fell 50% faster than the national average after Texas
passed a concealed carry law in 1995.
When citizens are allowed to carry concealed weapons:
• Murder rates drop 8%
• Rape rates fall 5%
• Aggravated assaults drop 7%
More to the point, crime is significantly higher in states without right-to-carry laws.
States that disallow concealed carry have violent crime rates 11% higher than national
averages.
Deaths and injuries from mass public shootings fall dramatically after right-to-carry concealed handgun laws are enacted. Between 1977 and 1995, the average death rate from mass shootings plummeted by up to 91% after such laws went into effect, and injuries dropped by over 80%.
Myth: The availability of guns causes crime
Though the number of firearms owned by private citizens has been increasing steadily since 1970, the overall rate of homicides and suicides has not risen. As the chart shows, there is no correlation between the availability of firearms and the rates of homicide and suicide in America.
Criminals are not motivated by guns. They are motivated by opportunity. Attempts
to reduce public access to firearms provide criminals more points of opportunity. It is little
wonder that high-crime cities also tend to be those with the most restrictive gun control laws –
which criminals tend to ignore.
A 1994 ban covered 19 different types of military assault weapons, including AK-47, Kalashnikov and Uzi rifles, as well as high-capacity ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds. Yet these weapons were found to increase after that time in the hands of gang members and criminals.
Research in the U.S. shows that more than 95 per cent of the times a gun is used in self-protection, the gun is not fired but merely displayed. There is no victim.
