[Alberta's Child]

Gun ownership is pointless when you're dealing with people who aren't responsible enough to use them, and aren't bright enough to know when to you them. In general, the more urbanized a nation becomes, the more people will tend to lose their sense of responsibility for themselves.

On a per-capita basis, Iraq is probably one of the most heavily-armed nations in the world -- and has a social order that is nearly incapable of enforcing any laws anyway even if guns were technically "illegal." That hasn't kept much of the country from descending into the kind of utter chaos that makes U.S. cities like Detroit and Washington D.C. look like havens of personal virtue and civic order.

[jdm]

Superb post. Thank you.