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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: If gun control laws are so good [View all]guardian
(2,282 posts)23. Wow! Thank you.
I appreciate
1. your comment about the OP
2. a direct response to the question as opposed to some off topic side step, and
3. your serious response (though reply #1 by rrneck gave me quite a chuckle) to what I intended as a serious question
I was hoping to elicit some discussion from gun control law proponents as to why they thought Chicago had a high gun crime rate despite highly restrictive gun laws. But I guess that was too much to hope for. All I see is some anti-gun pablum shifting the discussion away from the point in the OP to some other point that they want to make.
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i guess all the other nations are stupid and the governments will enslave the populations
samsingh
Jul 2012
#18
Vermont's gun death rate is only exceeded by one state in their Northwest Region
russ1943
Aug 2012
#76
it's the mental state of people who own and use guns - beyond legislating really nt
msongs
Jul 2012
#7
then there's the access to powerful weapons that can be used to massacre innocent people in a theatr
samsingh
Jul 2012
#44
They *have* tried it in Texas- Houston has half the murder rate of Chicago.
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2012
#21
None of the shall-issue states has had any movement to rescind shall-issue.
GreenStormCloud
Jul 2012
#55
being such a major city, could Chicago be more complicated than some of the others?
samsingh
Jul 2012
#36