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Valid points, but even with the added value you mention its still debatable on if its worth the cost... I just don't buy into the whole "guns don't kill people"
by splawn 13y ago
Valid points, but even with the added value you mention its still debatable on if its worth the cost... I just don't buy into the whole "guns don't kill people" slogan because i don't see very many mass-stabbings...if we were all ninja, I might agree with it. However, this issue is complex. Way too many factors and not enough datapoints to know what direction to really go in,imo. We could take either side and cherry-pick facts and go round and round all day. I just hope violence overall continues its decline.
- hga 13y agoI'd fork the discussion at this point, there's the utilitarian debate on costs vs. benefits (although it's even more complicated that you may realize, you have to go all the way to figuring in the quarter billion disarmed people killed by their own governments in the previous century), then there's the "the 2nd Amendment acknowledges the natural right of self-defense" and the minor detail of degenerate case that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is an enumerated Constitutional right and if you want to change any of this, you have to amend said Constitution first.