Quote Originally Posted by racer View Post
uh... I'm pretty sure that people killed other people thousands of years before guns were invented.

So to answer your question... crime came first. Crime will exist without the presence of guns. Always has. Always will.
You answered the question.
Crime manifests the proliferation of handguns through fear-mongering.

Running out and buying handguns for fear of who's about to jack your car at the next traffic light, or who's lurking in the bushes behind your house at night waiting to break in, beat you, rape your wife and daughter, and then kill you will only add to more armed Americans. No wonder your police react with deadly hair-trigger (pun intended) response to any threat.

And you say you live in the greatest country in the world? Hmm, OK.
Canada may not be the greatest country in the world, but I don't fear for my life at every sunset or every time I go for a ride or walk.