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Lots of people are dying.

• angersock 14y ago
  Every day, from heart disease, and car accidents, and lung cancer, and diabetes, and all manner of other things. As far as bang-for-your-buck legislation goes, we should look elsewhere if we want to decrease bodycounts.
  • rmc 14y ago
    Laws and public policy is being made to tackle those things. Should we not tackle the other deaths (being caused by guns) as well?
    • tsotha 14y ago
      Not if it means we have to give up freedoms. The problem just isn't that significant.
      • jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
        "freedoms"; what a concept, freedom to what exactly? freedom to easily kill I am guessing... because that being the case you should allow the posetion and creation of nuclear weapons by any USA citizen; those things give a lot of freedom to kill.
        • tsotha 14y ago
          Freedom to self defense is pretty fundamental in my book. As we like to say, when seconds count the police are only minutes away. It's probably different in your country, with no crime or violence or anything.
          • jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
            Funny you mention my country; because just here in my City, the 3° biggest of South America, the amount of murders have reduced significantly since the ban of weapons in the streets; its called Bogota. And you can keep playing to the hypothesis that someday you will need a revolution and guns will be useful, in real life in the present there is just people dying because you have associated your national identity with abusing gunpowder.
            • tsotha 14y ago
              Again, it just doesn't happen often enough that we need new laws.
              • jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
                Check your data more closely. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg/800px-Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Ush... >"it just doesn't happen often enough" There is nothing positive about guns; your group illusion of "self-protection" is quickly diminish by the fact that legal guns many times end up in the hands of the criminals, provoking accidents or in hands of mentally unqualified people... so even 1 death is enough.
                • tsotha 14y ago
                  My data is just fine, thank you. >There is nothing positive about guns; your group illusion of "self-protection" is quickly diminish by the fact that legal guns many times end up in the hands of the criminals, provoking accidents or in hands of mentally unqualified people... so even 1 death is enough. The idea that "even 1 death is enough" to take away a basic human right is just plain idiotic. How many times have assaults and murders been deterred by a gun? That doesn't show up in homicide statistics, does it?
                  • jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
                    How many times a gun has ended in murderer's hands after being bought legally? That doesn't show up in homicide statistics either, does it? Human rights as popularly known are the global rights established by the UN and I am pretty sure they don't mention guns. Or it must be a list of human rights you created yourself that I am not aware of.