Gun Control/Gun Ownership

What sort of Orwellian doublethink nonsense is that?
Am I calling you a gun freak?

Look at Florida other similar American states and compare them with areas like the District of Columbia.
You are comparing apples and orange. DC is way poorer, more urban and younger than Florida. All of which increases the rate of violence, not mentioning the dreadful de facto apartheid.

At least in America, gun control has been counterproductive.

That doesn't make gun ownership work any worse.  All policies that reduce crime should be embraced.

It seems to me that if you have a policy working well, you'd pick it over another one whose effects are at best contrevertial and that has proven to be negative for public health.

The balance is most certainly not broken in the USA.  If I were to ever use my personal weapon in a crime in my state, I'd probably be executed.  In my state, which gives all non felons who complete a course the right to carry hidden firearms, I go shopping and sit in restaurants and theaters with people who have guns that I can't see.  So far I've never even seen one unholster their weapons, much less try to use them for unlawful purposes.

So is it even useful to bear a gun? And yes balance IS broken as a criminal will have to assume everybody has a weapon to avoid surprises. Hence you are forced to own one. So YOU force ME to buy a gun, eventually.

I'm no different than outlaws because I own a weapon legally?  That makes absolutely no sense.

You have to admit that bad people usually have a gun, while Winny the Poo does not.

I'm the only one here who isn't being emotional.

Lol

My house is a safer place now that I have a gun and know how to use it, that's all I wanted.

I cannot legally take it concealed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as I do not have a concealed carry permit yet.  I keep my handgun in a case in my nightstand.

It's still a much better comparison than comparing Europe and the United States.

Mayors of major cities are fallible and stupid human beings as well.

It seems to me that if you have a policy working well, you'd pick it over another one whose effects are at best contrevertial and that has proven to be negative for public health.

A lot of people use them for self defence and if my university allowed the sane students to have weapons on campus instead of just the psychotic ones through their ridiculous and unenforced gun free campus policy, they could have saved some lives.

See my preceding post.

Once more it boils down to the traditional "are you ready to kill to save your plasma tv"?

People who freak out still can get guns if they premeditate the action, as the guy at my university obviously did.  Even in Germany there have been school shootings with firearms.  I'm sure even you would agree with me that the differences between the crime rates of Europe and the USA are influenced by much bigger socioeconomic issues than gun ownership.  For those same reasons I am convinced that your country could probably attain a much smaller amount of crime if gun ownership were deregulated, similar to the effect observed in Switzerland.