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Re:What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture by krapp on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:36AM (#16482277)
>Why do we think that we could anymore keep guns out of the hands of criminals than we could keep drugs out of the hands of people

Your equivocation seems to imply that gun regulation would either have either no or negative effect on gun ownership and usage. Yet other countries with stricter gun laws than the US have fewer incidents of gun violence, which would appear to suggest that it is, in fact, possible for gun laws to be effective at limiting gun violence.

The question, then, is not whether gun laws can keep guns out of the hands of criminals, but whether one believes they should.

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Re:What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture by scarface74 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:01AM (#16482680)
I didn't say it wouldn't have any effect. I'm saying that that the trade off of giving the government more power to lock people up isn't worth it. The criminal justice system has harmed far more lives by locking up non violent offenders than gun violence.
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