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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by madaxe_again on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:32AM (#15860029)
Got any statistics to back that up? I mean, it’s anecdotal, but how many school shootings have there been in the USA vs any non gun owning nation? Last one in the UK was Dunblane - and then they banned guns.
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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by gozur88 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:03AM (#15860170)
The school shootings are irrelevant statistically. They make the news because they're upsetting, but you're more likely to be beaten to death by someone's fists than shot with a long gun in the US.

The vast majority of gun crime is done with handguns, and much of it is already illegal - i.e. felons in possession of guns or people carrying when or where they're not legally allowed to do so.

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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by madaxe_again on Thursday December 07, 2017 @05:59AM (#15869067)
So where do those illegal guns come from? Santa? No. The legal gun market.
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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by gozur88 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @08:37PM (#15876027)
Well, sure. And if there were no legal gun market, they'd come from the illegal market like they do in places like Brazil and France. What's your point?
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