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It seems so obvious: more guns, more bullets flying, more death.
It seems to me the reluctance of some Americans to accept the facts on guns-and-death data is the same kind of intellectual vapor lock that makes them buy lottery tickets.
I declare a holy war started
Tell me about how when a criminal breaks into your home. What are you going to do? Call timeout? Ask him to wait for the police to arrive? And don't give me the "that'll never happen to me" line.
Also, tell me about how making something illegal solves a problem. By that logic, we should make Meth, heroin, crack, and an assortment of other items illegal. Oh wait...
I think you work a global solution to eliminate manufacturing of guns except under controlled conditions. We do it with nuclear materials; we can do it with guns. Strict global control. Licensing and control of use, as i outlined earlier. As a person who grew up with guns and hunted regularly, it is sad to see this development, but every day we lose lives to people who are, for whatever reason, unable to control their firearms. Sadly, when that happens, a bigger portion of society needs to intervene and take control of the situation.
And quite honestly, if we all are real in our introspection, what use does a gun really have in modern society? Sure, occasionally a robbery is thwarted, but more often there is a senseless death either directly or indirectly related to the gun...and the person supposedly responsible for it.
Yea we could model this global solution of your's like we have with the war on drugs, we just demanded that other countries stop growing and manufacturing opium, pot, cocaine, meth. and boom the war on drugs was over just like that.......Oh wait
Hell we can't even get countries friendly to us to stop producing drugs that end up on our streets.
I can see Putin ROFLMAO as Odumbo draws another line in the sand.
Yea it works so well with nuclear materials too, just ask the N.Koreans, or the Iranians.
I wish these anti-gun nuts would take a look at how home burglary and other crimes skyrocketed after England banned guns. But there I go again, introducing logic into the argument. Silly me.
Which the Supreme Court says applies to keeping a gun inside your house. Outside your house you have no automatic right to carry a gun.
SCOTUS has never taken a case re "bear" arms.
It is a pretty big reach to assume SCOTUS interprets "keep" as owning but "bear" as only inside your home. That stance just don't make any logical sense.
And if they are off by three orders of magnitude? The entire basis of asking someone who owns a gun if he deterred a crime is laughable.
Crime is not lower where gun laws are lax. Gun deaths are substantially higher in states with high gun ownership.
so that means chicago, and washington dc have the lowest gun murder rate in the USA, right?
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