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Old 03-25-2008, 10:58 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by garysher View Post
I agree some people will always have violent tendencies but "other weapons" are far less lethal than guns. That's why other industrialised countries suffer only a fraction of the homicides that America does.

It's interesting that gun nuts don't take the same attitude with other areas of behaviour, for example

"if abortion were made illegal people are still going to get abortions so why bother"

or

" speed limits don't stop people from speeding so let's just abolish speed limits"
Hmmm, good point. I guess the philosophy could be applied to any law.

"Well, only good law-abiding people obey laws, and the criminals just ignore them, so why have them at all?"

I'll be the first to admit that I'm a real flip-flopper on this issue. I know there should be at least some kind of regulations and restrictions. Generally I'm torn between exactly how stringent restrictions should be. However, I don't think it is at all a good idea, let alone a realistic one, to completely ban guns.
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