Idealists argue that guns should be banned altogether, except for the police. If there were no guns to steal, stolen guns couldn't be used for criminal purposes. That isn't true, either. Handguns are illegal in England, and a man was shot in a bar there this week. In 1996, a man opened fire on a class, killing 16 children and their teacher.
Advocates say guns are used less often in England.
For instance, handguns are used in only 7 percent of all murders there, compared to 56 percent in the United States. Besides, England is far more dangerous. The Christian Science Monitor reports that an English person is twice as likely to be assaulted as an American. Perhaps that is because American criminals know their potential victim may be carrying a gun and English thugs know their victims probably are not. Enter words describing a concept or keywords.