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Bill, you need to look closer at the numbers in Norway, which were skewed by a single incident. I did a quick look and found this regarding Norway, where in truth they have a very low rate of homicides and fatalities from the use of guns: The 2011 Norway attacks were two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF)-run summer camp in the Oslo region on 22 July 2011, claiming a total of 77 lives. I don't know about the other countries, but as you already know statistics can be deceiving. I'll admit I believe that more guns threaten rather than protect us, that violence begets violence, and as in England where few cops carry guns, there are almost no deaths as a result of guns fired by the police. To believe that carrying more guns will make us safer is, to me, very irrational and simply an emotional attachment to the second amendment that was created when our society was far different than today. We are not living in a combat zone; we do not live in a place where there are all sorts of dangers like wild animals, little law enforcement, or even attacks from unfriendly Indians. In any case, I don't believe that guns should be taken away from people, only that the possession of guns be controlled so that only responsible and law-abiding people be allowed to possess them. Sure, the wrong people will get guns on the Black Market, but I think strict laws will help prevent and reduce this.