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A comment on New Zealand banning assault and semi-automatic rifles. Parent comment

Re:New Zealand banning assault and semi-automatic rifles by um_ya on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:13AM (#19451389)
How so? In our case, the police are the good people you describe. The question is, would there be more net good people with access to guns, when placed everywhere, or more bad people? It's a thought experiment.
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Re:New Zealand banning assault and semi-automatic rifles by krapp on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:25AM (#19451478)
To me, I think it depends on whether a good person untrained to handle a gun properly in what amounts to a combat situation is still "good" if they decide they want to be a hero.

So whether or not we're safer in this situation is basically a dice roll.

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