that is one reason I like the U.S. In Canada I can go to jail for assaulting or killing someone that has broken into my house and tried to rob me. go figure. Though I have learned away around this, it could still land me in jail.

Fuck that. If someone tries to rob me in my own home I am going to shoot them twice, than call the cops. I will kill them and the law will be on my side.

It is this idiotic tendency to think that if you disarm the honest folk you have solved a problem that only escalates criminal behaviour. It is utter stupidity.

Not everywhere in America. Parts of it are as liberal as Canada.

As Bruce Lee once said, "Nowadays, you don't go around kicking people or shooting people, because if you do, someone will pull a gun out of their coat, and *bam*, that's it."

Crime and murder have been around literally through all of human history. We have a better ability to understand it now is all. People want to go back a "simpler" time not for innocence or peace, but for the illusions of them. Let me wake you up. You will never, ever see a world free of violence. Ever. Ever ever, ever. Accept that people will try to kill each other. Don't talk about some utopian world that will never exist; offer some sort of relevant suggestion for making this world better.

The biggest difference between firearms and knives, clubs, fists, rocks, and all the other implements that people used to more commonly kill each other with is that guns at least give everyone more or less a fair shot, instead of leaving the smaller and weaker unequipped to defend themselves if they needed to.

In America, are you allowed to walk around with weapons? Or are weapons only for defending your own house?

Federal Law states that the States have the choice when it comes to Firearm Laws unless a criminal action is taken while carying a gun.

In Utah we are allowed to acquire CFP's which are Concealed Firearm Permits. You must first find a Concealed Firearms Instructor who gives you a two-hour class in which you must demonstrate that you are proficient and that you understand firearms. They will than explain to you the letter of the law. You must than submit a small fee and the application which is signed by the instructor to the Criminal Background Identification Department. They run a Federal Background Check and if all is well several weeks later you are given a Identification which allows you to carry a concealed firearm.

I have one and as such can carry a concealed firearm wherever i go in the state of Utah. I may also carry within any State which has a reciprocal concealed program.

Wow. I didn't realise that concealed firearms were legal for civilians in US.

That changes things...I'm not sure how but it does....

hmmm, i'd like a gun.

Only in certain states.

namely, the cool states