that suddenly you get these spree killings. by the way, look at them. james holmes in aurora, california. jared loughner. they are all obviously paranoid schizophrenics but we can t lock them up because of the aclu. how do you explain other countries who have some percentage of mental illness and yet because there is no availability of guns they do not have the gun violence? look, countries are different. demographics are different. i don t know what the mental health laws are. i can tell you if you compare the white population to belgium, we have less crime gun crime than belgium. you don t think the prevalence of guns themselves has any impact? it s a very diverse country. should the culture try and be changed? away from a reliance and dependence on guns and
schizophrenics but we can t lock them up because of the aclu. how do you explain other countries who have some percentage of mental illness and yet because there is no availability of guns they do not have the gun violence? look, countries are different. demographics are different. i don t know what the mental health laws are. i can tell you if you compare the white population to belgium, we have less crime gun crime than belgium. you don t think the prevalence of guns themselves has any impact? it s a very diverse country. should the culture try and be changed? away from a reliance and dependence on guns and glorifying of guns? no. obviously i think guns reduce gun crimes. but the idea that when one spree killing after another is committed by a crazy person that you think taking the guns away is going to do something. it s like draining an ocean to find a ring you lost. that isn t going to help. the crazy people go out and kill
were like this. it was like one per decade for the first 200 years. how do you explain? let me finish the sentence. for the first 200 years of there being humans here, it was in the 70s it was right during the deinstitutionalization movement that suddenly you get these spree killings. by the way, look at them. james holmes in aurora, california. jared loughner. adam lanza, they are all obviously paranoid schizophrenics but we can t lock them up because of the aclu. how do you explain other countries who have some percentage of mental illness and yet because there is no availability of guns they do not have the gun violence? look, countries are different. demographics are different. i don t know what the mental health laws are. i can tell you if you compare the white population to belgium, we have less crime gun crime than belgium. you don t think the prevalence of guns themselves has any impact? it s a very diverse country. should the culture try and be changed?
i m happy to see a trend in which law enforcement are given the tools to protect themselves and the citizens from these dangerous thugs who like to arm themselves with what they believe are state-of-the-art weapons. new york city s own grahe gun investigation had immediate results. the number of crime gun dropped by 1100 from 2006 to 2007. many cities are frustrated by a lack of information about where crime guns come from. because of a congressional amendment, the atf s tracing data base can only be used to track guns in criminal investigations, not by cities trying to detect patterns of crime. backers of the amendment like the national rifle association say that releasing the data more widely could violate the privacy of gun owners and compromise criminal investigations. the atf is making progress. the agency working with state