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If presenting real world instances that describe "prohibition" of some kind is deflection, I will prefer that EVERY TIME.
Now, may be you weren't talking about preventing people from carrying/ownership, but something else. What was that discussion about?
The discussion was after Don mentioned drugs being a health issue so why not guns?, that the war on drugs is a failure, the violence that comes from prohibition is a bi-product of it including a lot of the gun violence from criminals, gangs and cartels. Notice that the new gun bans like in NY don't effect the mafia, cartels or gangs.
You can have access to a gun, or a bottle or a MJ blunt and what determines whether someone uses it or not wrongly is their moral code. Address the root causes and you'll lessen abuse of freedom without having to ban it.
We obviously have a problem whether guns are available or not when too many want to go off a murder spree and we need to address WHY they are thinking like that and acting on it.
Instead you went off about company rights to ban guns on their premises?
The discussion was after Don mentioned drugs being a health issue so why not guns?, that the war on drugs is a failure, the violence that comes from prohibition is a bi-product of it including a lot of the gun violence from criminals, gangs and cartels. Notice that the new gun bans like in NY don't effect the mafia, cartels or gangs.
Do you support prohibition of gun purchase to felons? Or, should we simply remove all such restrictions because anybody can get anything they want, after all.
Do you support prohibition of gun purchase to felons? Or, should we simply remove all such restrictions because anybody can get anything they want, after all.
Do you agree that prohibition creates violence from a blackmarket and that the many shootings that occur from cartels and gangs are because of bans and prohibition? Do you agree that there wouldn't be as many shootings if the gangs didn't fight over illegal trade of drugs?
Do you agree that hardly any political party or certain self interests profiting from prohibition want to end the current drug war even though it causes these problems but instead proposes even more prohibition?
You keep answering my questions with a question, just answer these direct questions.
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