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DanTex

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4. It's hard to say with certainty that any specific law would prevent any specific shooting.

Reply to askeptic (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 10:09 AM

Dec 2012

What we can say is that tighter gun laws overall will reduce easy gun availability and thus reduce the amount of gun violence going forward. If you believe that lax gun laws have nothing to do with the epidemic rates of gun violence in the US, then you are the one who is hopelessly deluded.

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Gun Control Laws: After Sandy Hook, Poll Finds Bump In Support For Greater Restrictions [View all] onehandle Dec 2012 OP

Killing the gun owner and taking their guns addressed with gun control? askeptic Dec 2012 #1

Thankfully, according to this poll you are in the minority. DanTex Dec 2012 #2

You didn't answer the question - which law failed? askeptic Dec 2012 #3

It's hard to say with certainty that any specific law would prevent any specific shooting. DanTex Dec 2012 #4

Huffpost's poll, from what I read, is not a scientific poll -- askeptic Dec 2012 #6

Actually, yes it was. DanTex Dec 2012 #7

Two wolves and a sheep vote on what's for dinner. Remmah2 Dec 2012 #5

Quite right - EXISTING gun control laws are nowhere near strict enough primavera Dec 2012 #8

The kid used a military weapon of mass destruction. onehandle Dec 2012 #9

I definitely wouldn't want to force you to think askeptic Dec 2012 #10

That cuts both ways primavera Dec 2012 #11

Where have I taken a position? Just sayin' I'd like to know which law failed askeptic Dec 2012 #13

Go back and re-read your posts primavera Dec 2012 #14

50 percent isn't exactly a tipping point WooWooWoo Dec 2012 #12

There was a movement to ban bucolic_frolic Dec 2012 #15

One very, very simple law could have prevented this shooting. Xithras Dec 2012 #16

Assuming he didn't know where the keys were sir pball Dec 2012 #18

Only 50%? That is very much discouraging. geek tragedy Dec 2012 #17

Bump? Should be freakin' mountain, but we'll take what we can get. AllyCat Dec 2012 #19