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The huge issue there is that it is a case of putting the djinn back in the bottle or belling the cat. Except in this case if one is 95% successful the result is guns only in the hands of those you least want to have them.
I agree that this is indeed a legitimate point. However, I think it is the only argument from the gun rights side that has any merit whatsoever.
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How is this an argument? Constitutional amendments are legitimate democratic actions aren't they? The 19th amendment to the constitution gave women the right to vote - was this "government running roughshod over the Constitution"?
A constitutional amendment is fine by me. In the current political environment the chance of any constructional amendment passing is slim to none. A controversial one has even less chance than that.
I will try to do so.....once I look up what a "two stanza haiku" is
What an idiot, I’m glad he got such a stiff sentence. I don’t know what this guy was thinking but he definitely deserves what he got, if not more so. It kind of sounds like a classic case of security guard wanting to play cops & robbers and looking for an excuse to shoot someone. I own 4 guns and am in the process of buying a 5th gun for hunting and all my guns stay locked up in my safe at home. My guns are for hunting and home protection, I don’t carry them around with me. It’s unfortunate that because of idiots like this guy that guns have gotten a bad reputation when in reality they save more lives than they actually harm.
Yeah well how do you put a number on how many people decide not to commit a crime because they’re afraid they might get shot?
The problem is, as Sheriff J.D. Smith once observed, most criminals aren't very smart. Deterrence only works on people with some sense of consequences.
That is an excellent question. How do you go about doing so? I presume you are including these in your claim that guns save more lives then they take?
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So it is not something that can be easily measured or appears. This is further impacted that we are wanting to look at the subset of homicidal crimes prevented. It would be interesting to see a per capita study against countries with strict gun control. Then again, I'm certain there Are other variables that would need to be factored in.
Many years ago, the National Safety Council did a study of that. They looked into literature, news reports, NRA data, and so on, to include cases of people brandishing a firearm to ward off attackers or intruders. They then looked at accidental firearm deaths, killings by family members, and so on. Their conclusion was that something like 20% of Americans lived in places dangerous enough that having a firearm was safer than not having one.
