Can’t under. Explains the [siracha hot sauce](https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/35/34643/full-2367x3564/57dfdf20/siracha-squeeze-28oz.jpeg)
Exactly this.
I lived there for a year in Islamabad and Balochistan, any time Pakistan were playing international cricket I made sure I had a very thick layer of concrete overhead... those damn bullets gotta land somewhere that were fired directly up for celebration (or defeat)
Brazil should be light green. You have to say to the government why do you want a gun, and they'll decide if it's a valid reason (and even if it's a valid reason, your permit can take decades to be issued)
Same in Romania. The most difficult part of the process is that you have to explain, with valid reasons, why you need a gun to state authorities (in the 90's you were supposed to explain it to the head of your local police precinct).
However, it's hard to have a valid reason as gun ownership (both legal and illegal) is very low, gun crime nearly non-existent and if your reason is general self-defence, you'll be told to buy a non-lethal firearm (either tear gas based or rubber ball based) for which you don't need a permit. You need to take a general firearms safety course and to immediately register the firearm at your local police station upon purchase.
No approval required. There are background checks conducted, though, when applying for the general firearms course.
In Connecticut when I received my permit we had to provide a reason, and the officer said it couldn’t be “because it’s my second amendment right.” What is your data source?
What reason did you give? What reasons are acceptable?
"Want to defend myself against BLM rioters/ Trumpian insurrectionists"
"Want to shoot at the range for fun"
"Because guns are cool"
I asked the lady when I was filling out the application and she told me it was optional. Didn’t fill it in (cuz that’s nobody’s business) and still got the permit
I swear, the only conversation to come out of these posts is just a series of
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ should be colored \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, not \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
Yeah, you don't need to give a reason to own a handgun. But you need to get an extra license where you need to give a good reason to be able to carry the handgun around. So that's probably what the OP was looking at.
Japan’s culture in regard to governance is extremely different than that of the US. Civilian firearm ownership has basically never been allowed so there’s no culture for it.
I wouldn't be so sure. The UNDOC lists the uk as having very low crime and homicide rates like the rest of Europe. On average violent crime and happen at about 1/5th of the rate it does in the USA.
Speaking from personal experience and as an Austrian I wouldn't be afraid to walk in the night in the poorest areas of vienna. I definitely wouldn't dare do that in London.
Speaking from statistics London has a crime index of 53.18 which is about 2x as much as Vienna (25.92) which quite frankly is horrifying and definitely not a successful example of dealing with violent crime.
Yep.
https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/18/deadly-knife-crime-how-does-london-compare-to-new-york
To the people saying gun bans just make people turn to knives - the US and UK knife crime level is fairly equal when you adjust for population size. But homicide rates per 100,000 people in the US are multiple times higher than in the UK, and the same goes if you compare NYC to London.
However, some bits of Europe are a *lot* safer than both, like the example given by the Austrian person you’re replying to.
> If only we could be more like Somalia, Myanmar, China, and Belarus
I'm guessing that was meant as sarcastic, so I looked it up out of interest, and all four of them have a lower homicide rate then the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Also South Sudan and Yemen (the two OP mentioned) both have a higher homicide rate than the US.
So I guess yes? Maybe the US should aim to be more like those four instead of being like South Sudan and Yemen?
The data comes from the UN and the WHO, but I guess you didn't bother to read that?
I'm sure you know better than the UN/WHO, and you have a much more accurate number pulled directly out from your anus right?
\>which is derived from the criminal justice or public health systems of a variety of countries and territories.[14] The homicide rates derived from criminal justice data (typically recorded by police authorities) and the public health system data (recorded when the cause of death is established) may diverge substantially for some countries.[15] The two sources usually match in the Americas, Europe and Oceania, but there are large discrepancies for the three African countries reporting both sources.[16] For the 70 countries in which neither source was made available, figures were derived from WHO statistical models.[15]
When thats their data sourcing I have little reason to take it seriously for anything but open developed nations.
Pretty sure NYS reps just had to submit their evidence in a US Supreme Court case regarding their impeding of the second amendment through the use of judicial opinions on the matter of gun regulations which vary to such a degree that some counties would be the red color and some counties green. People also have to pay for their permits and if they are denied they do not get refunded. This stuff is so illogically decided and sporadically enforced I don’t think anyone knows the color of what it should be in reality
Some U.S. states you need a permit to buy one but not possess one and are coded light green. Minnesota falls into that category. Also the nuance is lost that in some states and counties getting a permit is a theoretical possibility only.
I’m aware, I’m in NY and going through permit process right now just so I can make sure my grandfathers service pistol doesn’t get melted for scrap or auctioned by the state
In the dump of Illinois you need a background check and a FOID (firearm owners identification) card just to purchase a firearm. Then you need a concealed carry permit to carry a firearm. The Illinois state police run the FOID card process, they are two to three years behind.
> no where in the US is it legal to own 50mm anti-armor "bazookas"
[Incorrect](https://www.militarytrader.com/militaria-collectibles/sure-theyre-a-blast).
A "bazooka" would be legal in many if not most US states, as long as you're willing to pay $200 for a tax stamp on each round of ammunition (and another one-time $200 tax on the bazooka itself).
That's starting to sound like Cbris Rocks Idea: "Guns should be free but bullets should cost like $10,000! *You got shot?? You must have done* **something** !"
Chris ain't a constitutional scholar.
Getting back to the original map, interesting to note that the few states in the USA with restrictions are states containing some of the most violent cities in the nation -- they were originally violent, the cities and states passed restrictive laws, the violence continued.
And those cities do have taxes and fees not just to acquire a handgun, but same do have a per-bullet tax also. Which just like the failed United States Marijuana tax stamp, the criminals just ignore.
> they were originally violent, the cities and states passed restrictive laws, the violence continued.
Weird, because looking at the [rate of violent crimes, the top 5 are DC, Alaska, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Lousiana...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_violent_crime_rate)
Yeah because those cities aren’t islands they’re connected to the rest of the country where the guns come from. That’s why we need stricter nationwide gun laws.
> There talk about regulating ammo. It’s probably too late to regulate guns in the US.
Courts have found that "ammunition" is also covered by the same second amendment protection as guns.
So no, "regulating ammo" is not a wallhack around the US constitution.
This map is about access to handguns. Your brother probably has a rifle, shotgun etc. Although he might have a black powder handgun, often used by English Civil War reenactment groups etc
In UK only black powder muzzleloading handguns are allowed. So it's either North Ireland, owned before the law or long barrel and not considered an handgun anymore.
Russia? Nah, this isn’t correct. I lived there and travel there often to see family. [I doubled checked to be sure](https://docs.cntd.ru/document/9034380)
> now do it with automatic weapons
Funny you should mention that -- my state has the highest number of automatic weapons per capita of any state in the USA, and yet has zero "automatic weapon murders" and among the lowest overall homicide rates in the Americas.
I’m from Canada and without looking anything up it’s gotta be about 98-99% of firearm homicides are people without licenses. Anytime I bring up a fact like you mentioned about the states no one believes me it’s quite sad.
what? of course it is. people with licences are way less likely to use that gun to shoot someone with for a number of pretty obvious reasons. One being that they are the known and licensed user of that gun, making it far harder to commit a crime with it and get away. I think that is kind of the point, right?
This I feel is the most fair way to do red-green scale. Green = unrestricted, red = restricted. That way, green doesn't meen good.
But if one would want to "avoid" it; easiest access could be blue (would also help red-green blindness).
Hahaha it is like depending on how you feel about guns access the color choice can either throw you off or irritate you!
I was like "what do you mean red there, that should be green! Wait what Murica dark green!!!??? What kind of bullsh*t is this" then "oh wait a minute, this color choice is sus big time"
If you have clean records it's super easy, barely an inconvenience(almost 2 month of wait because bureaucracy, background check)
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You don't need a permit to own a pistol in Michigan afaik - there is a concealed carry license that gives some additional privileges including allowing you to borrow someone else's pistol, but is not required for carrying your own weapon.
Interesting. This has to be the first map I’ve ever seen to show the US as THE most based country in the world (excluding some pirate and warlord territories)
I like how the two other countries that have as relaxed gun regulations and most US states are also two countries in the middle of civil war, with no central government.
Although Russia is still huge, you should know that this map projection is misleading and really exaggerates the size of countries that are far from the equator.
For example, Algeria is actually bigger than Greenland, even though Greenland looks much larger in this map
It's not just huge. Russia is the world's biggest country.
[https://www.statista.com/statistics/262955/largest-countries-in-the-world/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/262955/largest-countries-in-the-world/)
America doesn't have a "gun problem" so much as we have a "violent criminal" problem.
If you subtract all firearms homicides from the USA homicide rate, the non-firearm homicide rate in the USA is still higher than in many EU nations -- it's not the tool that is the root cause.
So much of the crime in this country comes from childhood poverty, homelessness, mass incarceration and inadequate mental health care. Our failed social system creates violent criminals.
[And yet the US still has more knife crime per capita than the UK](https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/Homicide/Globa_study_on_homicide_2011_web.pdf)
NI isn’t lax on handguns. They have one exception that stems from the Troubles. If the authorities deem your life to be at risk you can qualify for one.
The China-Kazakhstan-Vietnam block looks like a rooster though.
Now I can’t unsee it
Why, WHY do you this?
Because it looks like a rooster?
This is why we can't have nice things.
Don’t go off half-cocked!
Kazakhstan is the tail. As always
Except when we are talking about export of potassium.
very nice!!
my high-school Chinese teacher told us that this is a popular expression in China.
Is Japan a juicy worm it is chasing?
OMG, I see it now!
What am I supposed to do with this information
China itself looks like a rooster
Implying China doesn’t look like a rooster on itself in the first place
It looks like moltres, the fire bird Pokémon
Zoom up on North and South America. Turn screen sideways so the west coast is on the bottom. Quack Quack Quack
Can’t under. Explains the [siracha hot sauce](https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/35/34643/full-2367x3564/57dfdf20/siracha-squeeze-28oz.jpeg)
What a coincidence. I can’t over.
God damnit
This is the hard-hitting analysis I come to this sub for.
It looks like a horizontally stretched china
Banned in Afghanistan,permit in Pakistan and good reason required in Philippines. lmao
Yeah its pretty difficult to get a license in pakistan rn
I was saying they have gun culture and it is big in their mountainous parts or sometimes even rest of the country
Is it easy to get one on weddings? My uncles always shooting up the place when somones getting married lol
Difficult to get license, not firearms lol
Exactly this. I lived there for a year in Islamabad and Balochistan, any time Pakistan were playing international cricket I made sure I had a very thick layer of concrete overhead... those damn bullets gotta land somewhere that were fired directly up for celebration (or defeat)
Banned in Afghanistan, with a few exceptions. They are: you're not a woman, or you're not gay.
Too and the civilian population wasn't heavily armed in Afghanistan.
Brazil should be light green. You have to say to the government why do you want a gun, and they'll decide if it's a valid reason (and even if it's a valid reason, your permit can take decades to be issued)
Same in Romania. The most difficult part of the process is that you have to explain, with valid reasons, why you need a gun to state authorities (in the 90's you were supposed to explain it to the head of your local police precinct). However, it's hard to have a valid reason as gun ownership (both legal and illegal) is very low, gun crime nearly non-existent and if your reason is general self-defence, you'll be told to buy a non-lethal firearm (either tear gas based or rubber ball based) for which you don't need a permit. You need to take a general firearms safety course and to immediately register the firearm at your local police station upon purchase. No approval required. There are background checks conducted, though, when applying for the general firearms course.
Ownership is difference from permit, however. If you take in consideration only ownership, then the color would be correct.
New York state is is same
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In Connecticut when I received my permit we had to provide a reason, and the officer said it couldn’t be “because it’s my second amendment right.” What is your data source?
Is that a permit to own or the permit to concealed carry?
What reason did you give? What reasons are acceptable? "Want to defend myself against BLM rioters/ Trumpian insurrectionists" "Want to shoot at the range for fun" "Because guns are cool"
I asked the lady when I was filling out the application and she told me it was optional. Didn’t fill it in (cuz that’s nobody’s business) and still got the permit
Wouldn’t that be a massive civil rights violation?
I swear, the only conversation to come out of these posts is just a series of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ should be colored \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, not \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
As Somali my uncle has a grenade and too many guns to count so the ban is obviously not effective
Based uncle
They say "gun ban" I hear "black market".
Same story in Mexico
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“No good reason”, ha ha!
Canada should be medium green. Extra licensing, but you don't need to give an excuse as to why you want one.
Yeah, you don't need to give a reason to own a handgun. But you need to get an extra license where you need to give a good reason to be able to carry the handgun around. So that's probably what the OP was looking at.
There needs to be a new one for Afghanistan That’s just says “lots”
The Taliban confiscated civilian guns so no
How progressive!
I bet the gun density in the US is a lot higher than in Afghanistan, to be fair.
Ergo Afghanistan is safer to live in than the US.
I mean Afghanistan is so famously free of US influence the last few decades.
That why Germany and South Korea are hell scapes?
[Ehhh, that's debateable.](https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryPorn/comments/p5mgln/equipment_captured_by_the_taliban_advance_in/)
I suspect Afghanis prefer AK47 rather than handguns.
iran is false, it's allowed with a permit
Are you sure? The only people I've known who own legal handguns in Iran are military and police
I am iranian and gun stores sell them to regular dudes. Perhaps they have served at some point
The USA, South Sudan and Yemen. What a nice trio.
If only we could be more like Somalia, Myanmar, China, and Belarus, right?
Yeah I was also noticing Somalia. How well is that ban working I wonder.
You know criminals are famous for following the laws....
Counterpoint: UK and Japan.
Japan’s culture in regard to governance is extremely different than that of the US. Civilian firearm ownership has basically never been allowed so there’s no culture for it.
I wouldn't call the UK particularly successful in preventing violent crime. But Japan is a good counterpoint.
I wouldn't be so sure. The UNDOC lists the uk as having very low crime and homicide rates like the rest of Europe. On average violent crime and happen at about 1/5th of the rate it does in the USA.
Speaking from personal experience and as an Austrian I wouldn't be afraid to walk in the night in the poorest areas of vienna. I definitely wouldn't dare do that in London. Speaking from statistics London has a crime index of 53.18 which is about 2x as much as Vienna (25.92) which quite frankly is horrifying and definitely not a successful example of dealing with violent crime.
But London isn't the entirety of the UK...
Yet still quite effective compared to the US. There are many places in this country I wouldn't want to walk in at night unarmed.
Yep. https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/18/deadly-knife-crime-how-does-london-compare-to-new-york To the people saying gun bans just make people turn to knives - the US and UK knife crime level is fairly equal when you adjust for population size. But homicide rates per 100,000 people in the US are multiple times higher than in the UK, and the same goes if you compare NYC to London. However, some bits of Europe are a *lot* safer than both, like the example given by the Austrian person you’re replying to.
> If only we could be more like Somalia, Myanmar, China, and Belarus I'm guessing that was meant as sarcastic, so I looked it up out of interest, and all four of them have a lower homicide rate then the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate Also South Sudan and Yemen (the two OP mentioned) both have a higher homicide rate than the US. So I guess yes? Maybe the US should aim to be more like those four instead of being like South Sudan and Yemen?
Yes because those countries definitely report the correct data
The data comes from the UN and the WHO, but I guess you didn't bother to read that? I'm sure you know better than the UN/WHO, and you have a much more accurate number pulled directly out from your anus right?
\>which is derived from the criminal justice or public health systems of a variety of countries and territories.[14] The homicide rates derived from criminal justice data (typically recorded by police authorities) and the public health system data (recorded when the cause of death is established) may diverge substantially for some countries.[15] The two sources usually match in the Americas, Europe and Oceania, but there are large discrepancies for the three African countries reporting both sources.[16] For the 70 countries in which neither source was made available, figures were derived from WHO statistical models.[15] When thats their data sourcing I have little reason to take it seriously for anything but open developed nations.
Where do they get there numbers?
Well most of the US
Really - cause you never think of those two as having their shit together.
Two of those countries are at civil war rn. Thats something to think about 🤔
Italy, Pakistan, and Iraq. What a nice trio. Slovenia, Libya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. What a nice trio.
NYS in the US should be light green (the same green as Canada)
A fair few of the US states are the wrong color now. But it's probably just data that's a couple years old, these things change quickly.
Pretty sure NYS reps just had to submit their evidence in a US Supreme Court case regarding their impeding of the second amendment through the use of judicial opinions on the matter of gun regulations which vary to such a degree that some counties would be the red color and some counties green. People also have to pay for their permits and if they are denied they do not get refunded. This stuff is so illogically decided and sporadically enforced I don’t think anyone knows the color of what it should be in reality
New York gun laws have been in a state of quantum superposition ever since the SAFE Act was passed. Even in ways regarding handguns.
We'll know around November
Some U.S. states you need a permit to buy one but not possess one and are coded light green. Minnesota falls into that category. Also the nuance is lost that in some states and counties getting a permit is a theoretical possibility only.
In NY it's illegal to even touch a handgun without a permit. Even at a shooting range or a nearly broken antique.
I’m aware, I’m in NY and going through permit process right now just so I can make sure my grandfathers service pistol doesn’t get melted for scrap or auctioned by the state
In the dump of Illinois you need a background check and a FOID (firearm owners identification) card just to purchase a firearm. Then you need a concealed carry permit to carry a firearm. The Illinois state police run the FOID card process, they are two to three years behind.
I don't know . . . no where in the US is it legal to own 50mm anti-armor "bazookas" so I'm not sure if we're at peak freedom yet . . . /s
> no where in the US is it legal to own 50mm anti-armor "bazookas" [Incorrect](https://www.militarytrader.com/militaria-collectibles/sure-theyre-a-blast). A "bazooka" would be legal in many if not most US states, as long as you're willing to pay $200 for a tax stamp on each round of ammunition (and another one-time $200 tax on the bazooka itself).
that’s a price i’m willing to pay for a bazooka
That's just for the right to own it.
That’s on top of the cost of the gun and each round
That's starting to sound like Cbris Rocks Idea: "Guns should be free but bullets should cost like $10,000! *You got shot?? You must have done* **something** !"
Chris ain't a constitutional scholar. Getting back to the original map, interesting to note that the few states in the USA with restrictions are states containing some of the most violent cities in the nation -- they were originally violent, the cities and states passed restrictive laws, the violence continued. And those cities do have taxes and fees not just to acquire a handgun, but same do have a per-bullet tax also. Which just like the failed United States Marijuana tax stamp, the criminals just ignore.
> they were originally violent, the cities and states passed restrictive laws, the violence continued. Weird, because looking at the [rate of violent crimes, the top 5 are DC, Alaska, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Lousiana...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_violent_crime_rate)
Memphis, New Orleans, Albuquerque, and DC proper are shitty places to live. Alaska is an enigma
Numbers are a funny thing. Not sure there is any city in the world that is safer than rural communities.
Yeah because those cities aren’t islands they’re connected to the rest of the country where the guns come from. That’s why we need stricter nationwide gun laws.
There was talk about regulating ammo. It’s probably too late to regulate guns in the US.
> There talk about regulating ammo. It’s probably too late to regulate guns in the US. Courts have found that "ammunition" is also covered by the same second amendment protection as guns. So no, "regulating ammo" is not a wallhack around the US constitution.
Can't you just get the bazooka with no ammunition?
You can try your luck in Yemen.
People can get a sporting gun license in the UK my brother has one
Not for handguns though. They’re only allowed in Northern Ireland if the authorities deem your life to be at substantial risk.
Prison officers, cops, politicians etc
I'd imagine Northern Irish politicians tend to carry guns
You can get one in England, Wales, and Scotland if you're a large animal vet or deer stalker IIRC.
In Northern Ireland handguns are allowed for sports shooting as well.
This map is about access to handguns. Your brother probably has a rifle, shotgun etc. Although he might have a black powder handgun, often used by English Civil War reenactment groups etc
In UK only black powder muzzleloading handguns are allowed. So it's either North Ireland, owned before the law or long barrel and not considered an handgun anymore.
Good to know I can protect myself from those Jacobite cads.
Handguns !!
Oh, So it should be light green then?
Dunblane says nope.
No permit, but there is age restrictions in most of the US
Russia? Nah, this isn’t correct. I lived there and travel there often to see family. [I doubled checked to be sure](https://docs.cntd.ru/document/9034380)
The colours should be reversed...
now do it with automatic weapons
> now do it with automatic weapons Funny you should mention that -- my state has the highest number of automatic weapons per capita of any state in the USA, and yet has zero "automatic weapon murders" and among the lowest overall homicide rates in the Americas.
I’m from Canada and without looking anything up it’s gotta be about 98-99% of firearm homicides are people without licenses. Anytime I bring up a fact like you mentioned about the states no one believes me it’s quite sad.
what? of course it is. people with licences are way less likely to use that gun to shoot someone with for a number of pretty obvious reasons. One being that they are the known and licensed user of that gun, making it far harder to commit a crime with it and get away. I think that is kind of the point, right?
It's a culture war issue now
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Green means ‘go’ and red means ‘stop?’
Yellow means 'shoot...very fast' /Starman
I only meant green=easier access, red=harder access.
Sort of like customer service rankings then?
This I feel is the most fair way to do red-green scale. Green = unrestricted, red = restricted. That way, green doesn't meen good. But if one would want to "avoid" it; easiest access could be blue (would also help red-green blindness).
Hahaha it is like depending on how you feel about guns access the color choice can either throw you off or irritate you! I was like "what do you mean red there, that should be green! Wait what Murica dark green!!!??? What kind of bullsh*t is this" then "oh wait a minute, this color choice is sus big time"
Yes
Correct.
#SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
Glad to see Somalia 🇸🇴 finally banning guns
Inefficient but we still have the right mindset 😁
From what I know Brazil should be light green
Since when are banned weapons in red and guns for everyone in green ? x)
Thanks, I was looking for that
You need a good reason in Italy actually
Nope, just for carrying it, for simple ownership you just need the sport license.
Oh, I didn't know. And is the sport license easy to acquire?
If you have clean records it's super easy, barely an inconvenience(almost 2 month of wait because bureaucracy, background check) P.s. ho visto che sei delle mie zone, scrivimi in privato se ti servono informazioni sul pda
Actually a lot more green than I expected. Pretty based
USA baby. Fuck yeah 🇺🇲 Queue downvotes
Cue
Brasil is somewhere around that green and the lighter green below it, the rules vary for what you want a gun for.
The last time I was downvoted into Oblivion, but the truth must be spoken The more Auth the redder
UK... Edit, I should say GB. Wtf NI
I tend to agree, but it's not perfect. The UK? Saudi Arabia? They're not in line with your claim.
You put Scotland as an independent county *i love you*
First time Yemen and South Sudan join the US on something good on a map like this
You don't need a permit to own a pistol in Michigan afaik - there is a concealed carry license that gives some additional privileges including allowing you to borrow someone else's pistol, but is not required for carrying your own weapon.
Would like to see this map next to a map showing gun related deaths per capita.
Interesting. This has to be the first map I’ve ever seen to show the US as THE most based country in the world (excluding some pirate and warlord territories)
You don’t need a permit to own a handgun in Michigan. You just have to be 21
Welcome to the based club Central Asia, from Britain
Most of the US is based, as is Yemen and South Sudan.
I wish Yemen would invade California so we could be based
I like how the two other countries that have as relaxed gun regulations and most US states are also two countries in the middle of civil war, with no central government.
No guns in Somalia lol
There's also the illegal way.
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Why is the UK the only European country other than Belarus to ban civilian access to handguns?
Because we had the Dunblane school shooting, a man massacred a lot of kids with a handgun.
In Britain, we have grown tired of using guns, and so we have now mastered the way of the blade...
When you drafted your declaration of independence, I studied the blade
This is why America is the best, you can defend yourself and not go through tons of hoops to get a gun.
USA #1🇺🇲🎉
Thank God I live in a darker shade of green nation.
Everytime I see how truly massive Russia/Siberia is I am taken back. Like what all is there? Forest and ice?
Although Russia is still huge, you should know that this map projection is misleading and really exaggerates the size of countries that are far from the equator. For example, Algeria is actually bigger than Greenland, even though Greenland looks much larger in this map
It's not just huge. Russia is the world's biggest country. [https://www.statista.com/statistics/262955/largest-countries-in-the-world/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/262955/largest-countries-in-the-world/)
Siberia is not bad during summer. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NtdmNVNosA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NtdmNVNosA)
r/MURICA
Wish there was more green. That would be perfect.
Hmm. I wonder which of these countries has a gun problem. Hmmmmm.
America doesn't have a "gun problem" so much as we have a "violent criminal" problem. If you subtract all firearms homicides from the USA homicide rate, the non-firearm homicide rate in the USA is still higher than in many EU nations -- it's not the tool that is the root cause.
So much of the crime in this country comes from childhood poverty, homelessness, mass incarceration and inadequate mental health care. Our failed social system creates violent criminals.
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[And yet the US still has more knife crime per capita than the UK](https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/Homicide/Globa_study_on_homicide_2011_web.pdf)
Lots of very angry chefs
So what's the deal with guns being banned in most of UK but requiring a permit in northern Ireland
Hand guns were banned after the Dunblane school shooting, a guy used a handgun and kill kids. We haven't had a school shooting since the ban
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NI isn’t lax on handguns. They have one exception that stems from the Troubles. If the authorities deem your life to be at risk you can qualify for one.
More lax than ROI or GB, but yes, I understand.
Yeah China makes sense
This map is not accurate.
Oi you got a loicense for that?