Is it WRONG to own guns, rifles, swords, knives, etc.?

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One wonders what it is that means one nation NEEDS firearms, and others dont. Size is obviously not a requirement, as both the US and Australia are huge, with plenty of isolated homesteads and local policing. If anything, given its beginnings in life as a penal colony, one would almost expect it to have MORE of a firearms culture. Both nations went through something of a "frontier" period. So what is the difference that makes one culture triggerhappy, but not the other?

Kangaroos are less dangerous than the Cheyenne were?

Well, I am proud to be an American because we have less car theft, rape, property crime and burglary per capita than Australia.

Car Theft
Rape
Property crime
Burglary

Just a little bit of snarkiness there.

I would be hesitant to call the US uncivilized as well, part of the reason is that civilization is a difficult term to apply objectively, not only that but the US is one of the most powerful western nations in most terms, it has the strongest military, one of the strongest economies, great technology, a strong university system, and we have had a significant number of nobel prize winners.

Macbeth: I think it could be that in Australia we have more 'mateship' and we give people more of a 'fair go'. Plus it could be our ties to Britain, even though they may not be as strong nowadays. I suppose here there may not be as much paranoia and we don't see the need to 'look over our shoulders' all the time, and maybe we do trust authority a little more. Still, I guess being able to feel safer walking down the street at virtually any time of day is better than having to lock myself up for fear of being killed.

@Awesomelyglorious

So if the US is such a safe and pleasant place to be why do you need the weapons?

Personally I am glad that at worst I am most likely to be given a kicking or bashed with a baseball bat than I am to be shot!
Citing a whole lot of polls to denigrate Aussie doesn't justify the whole BS mentality of 'the right to bear arms'... lol
peace j

Exactly. Even though we Antipodeans have some proble,ms with the indigenies (aborigines and Maories), I would feel more comfortable walking amongst them than a group of juiced up Hispanics, or negroes or Caucasians in America, simply because of the mentality that they have in regard to violence and the perception that everyone is out to get them. Sure, we may have had some corruption in the Police, but it's nothing compared to the scale that happens in the US, and the fact that weapons are available to anyone who has the readies to buy them and apply for the permits means that this violence just gets worse. At least if I get hit with a cricket bat, I would probably survive; but if some loon shot me, it's hello afterlife or whatever.

Perhaps anti-self defense proponents here are a bit communist? Perhaps since THEY don't like having freedom and rights, they don't think OTHER people should enjoy freedom and rights?
No, most likely they take their freedom and rights for granted, theyr so egotistical that they think they can sit on their ass and smoke the peace pipe in some stupid little hippy commune and history will never repeat itself against them. And no amount of evidence can convince them otherwise, because their opinions are set in stone.... "It's what liberals believe", no need to question it any further right

Dude I'm threw with this thread, it's pointless arguing with f*****g ret*ds anyways (yes I called you ret*d).