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Recursion

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5. We've also cut gun violence by more than half in 20 years
Mon Dec 24, 2012, 06:50 PM
Dec 2012

Actual complex problems rarely have simple solutions.

Drunk driving and guns. [View all] Whovian Dec 2012 OP
cars and guns have something else in common... Deep13 Dec 2012 #1
Good on you but back in reality world Whovian Dec 2012 #2
Reality world? Where do you think I live? Deep13 Dec 2012 #19
The Israeli solution seems like a sensible and civilized weapons policy. libdem4life Dec 2012 #3
The last Aircraft threat was over a decade ago for any country. Whovian Dec 2012 #4
The US. The TSA. A Federal Agency. libdem4life Dec 2012 #7
Other than 9-11 thare have been virtually no flights Whovian Dec 2012 #9
Yes, we agree. Point being we devised a national system to make air passengers safe. libdem4life Dec 2012 #18
We've also cut gun violence by more than half in 20 years Recursion Dec 2012 #5
A straight line Whovian Dec 2012 #6
What was the straight line that has reduced gun violence so much? Recursion Dec 2012 #8
Like all the school shootings and mass killings? Whovian Dec 2012 #10
Yes, schools are *MUCH* safer than they were 20 years ago Recursion Dec 2012 #11
Has it? GeorgeGist Dec 2012 #12
In a two-decade window? Significantly Recursion Dec 2012 #13
Those stats don't specially address gun crime hack89 Dec 2012 #28
The straight line that would ban most guns from the hands of the general public. Whovian Dec 2012 #14
I have no idea what that would do Recursion Dec 2012 #15
Want to expand a bit on that thought? Are peeps going to grow their own guns? Whovian Dec 2012 #16
Ask yourself how many people the war on drugs has killed Recursion Dec 2012 #17
Well, if their guns have been confiscated Whovian Dec 2012 #20
And if confiscating all or even most of the 300,000,000 guns out there were possible... Recursion Dec 2012 #24
But of course! 99Forever Dec 2012 #25
Confiscating some and driving the rest underground Recursion Dec 2012 #27
In case you didn't notice... 99Forever Dec 2012 #29
Nice try; I don't own any guns Recursion Dec 2012 #30
Of course you don't. 99Forever Dec 2012 #32
You must get paid by the post, then? morningfog Dec 2012 #35
I have to agree that this is a complex problem. Deep13 Dec 2012 #21
Apparently they are either going to shoot the ocean or the drought, Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #31
signs like this are cute Superbot Dec 2012 #22
Designated shooters? Glassunion Dec 2012 #23
This just doesn't make sense cthulu2016 Dec 2012 #26
Not to a gun fetishist. To the rest of the world, maybe so. Whovian Dec 2012 #33
I doubt gun fetishists are the only people on Earth who can think cthulu2016 Dec 2012 #34
Not to the gun prohibitionists Angleae Dec 2012 #36
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