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In reply to the discussion: A sincere wish for our DU gun owners: visit Norway! [View all]branford
(4,462 posts)Is it that many Americans value firearms and are quite willing to use them to defend themselves, that we have a large level of violent crime, including guns, primarily connected to the drug trade in the inner cities, our suicide rate is rather high and the instrument utilized is often a gun, that no "civilized" individual needs to own a gun, or something else?
Each of these alleged problems and others have many causes and possible solutions, often without interfering with firearm ownership.
Although I'm certainly not accusing you personally of ulterior motives, the arguments about "reasonable regulation" and proper education are often just smokescreens for incremental methods of ultimately outlawing most guns, regardless of the nature of the alleged problem or their usefulness of value to many Americans.