Only in the free world

[Pondlife]

Honestly, do you just come here to be argumentative no matter how much of a retard it makes you look?

Are you new here?

[stackpole]

It's inevitable that trick or treating is going to upset some people, and some of those are going to be nutters. The only answer is to stop it which, as we all know, is impossible. So we have to accept that the odd atrocity will happen.

[DodgyAgent]

In USA they've got 200 mln firearms or maybe even more - a few people will always be nutters and do wrong thing, that's a very small percentage of overall responsible ownership that actually saves lifes. Car accidents kill far more people in the USA, UK and elsewhere than guns - does it mean cars should be banned?

The ability to travel is a benign facet of life, it gives people social mobility and the opportunity to interract with one another. This breaks down fear and suspicion and creates confidence and enables people to do business (which is better than war). The ability to carry a gun is of no use to society whatsoever.

[ASB]

42836 car deaths in 2004, as you've already stated.

Surely the % figures are two orders of magnitudes too smal.

What they head as % of population is surely the actual fraction of the population.