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In reply to the discussion: Should gun rights be subject to cost benefit analysis? [View all]rrneck
(17,671 posts)42. I guess it depends on who's doing the CBA.
Last edited Sat Apr 28, 2012, 10:41 PM - Edit history (1)
Is it some policy wonk in a think tank making a hundred grand a year or someone being murdered?
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You know as well as I do that there are many cases where guns have been used for self defense
TPaine7
Apr 2012
#10
"Are you trying to claim that this somehow disproves the extensive evidence that gun availability in
TPaine7
Apr 2012
#21
You seem to think, like iverglas, that the OP condemns all cost benefit analyses pertaining to guns.
TPaine7
Apr 2012
#18
Gun availability *to criminals* is not the only factor, but it is definitely one factor. n/t
TPaine7
Apr 2012
#36