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Is the gun control position unknown? It's the same as has been recited ad nuasum for 50 years: there is no right to bear arms in the same way as speech or relig
by whybroke 11y ago
Is the gun control position unknown? It's the same as has been recited ad nuasum for 50 years: there is no right to bear arms in the same way as speech or religion and increased availability of firearms doesn't reduce violence. Only one portion of one country one earth seems to think otherwise, amounting to roughly 1% of mankind.
If two generations of discourse has had no effect then certainly nothing I could ever post will change even one member of that 1% any more than I could change a creationist's view which has been demonstrably invalid 150 years now.
But I might challenge a gun advocate's consistency this way though: why not establish a charity to hand out guns to poor inner city kids so as to reduce crime in those areas or at least give them too the opportunity to exercise that alleged fundamental human right; gun ownership?
- balls187 11y ago> and increased availability of firearms doesn't reduce violence Conversely, the decreased availability of firearms doesn't reduce violence either. Turns out there are no hard links one-way or the other. Crime rates correlate strongly with poverty rates.