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I infer from a number of imprecise perceptions that the reason some folks (probably most folks) want some gun control laws is that getting shot can kill you. I'm not being facetious. Shooting someone is violent and there ought to be laws against violent assaults. We have laws against such behavior. We also have speed limits, laws about DUI, restrictions on counterfeiting and many other problematic activities. Those laws are broken sometimes as are the laws against violent assault. On the face of it, it's just as illegal to stab someone as it is to shoot them but firearms work faster and from further away than a knife. So it seems that some extra controls aren't an altogether bad idea.

Should it be illegal for anyone to knowingly sell a firearm to violent criminals or folks with established mental problems and, to that end, should all states and territories in the US make it a law that all sales, both via an FFL or any other seller, have an NICS check performed by local law enforcement?

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