Which states? I have lived 21 years of my life in the glorious US of A and nefver once seen someone strolling around with a weapon. :/
The redneck states, or others that allow concealed carry
Now stop posting drunk Chris
recently people were angry regarding the extradition of Gary McKinnon
He is still innocent as he has never been tried, equally what he did from his bedroom in the UK is
NOT illegal under UK law technically - why should be be extradited for a crime committed from the UK?
Back on topic..
How will unbanning them solve anything though? I take it the underlying problem you're talking about is gun crime. The USA doesn't ban them and has gun crime. Finland doesn't ban them and allegedly has both extremely high rates of gun ownership and low rates of gun crime. Simply banning/unbanning them probably won't fix anything.
I never said unbanning them will solve something, but funnily home invasion is lower in America due to home owners potentially having guns and being allowed to use them.
My argument is that having guns legal or illegal is neither here nor there with respect to preventing murder and other crimes, however by banning guns you take away people's freedom to own them. Tackling crime needs to occur via the prison and social aspect of things, and death penalty is perhaps a means of tackling serious offenders as it will prevent them from re-offending, permanently (and it is a well known fact that re-offending is very common).
Another thing that could be introduced is the American 3 strike law, where if you commit several crimes within a certain period of time you are given a mandatory prison sentence.
Combine this with prison labour and you can use the scum to do some good as well