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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-12-10 04:25 PM
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35. "Sensible gun control" ?
You mean like Australia, where gun crimes still happen daily, except the public can't defend themselves? Or England, where they're now trying to ban kitchen knives because their crime rate is so astronomical, and you're legally prohibited from defending yourself from an intruder in your own home?

Or how about Switzerland, where they have literally 660,000 fully automatic machine guns and ammo stored in people's closets as part of their military readiness?

Despite you trying to reduce it to an absolutist yes/no equation, there's a few more complicated things that affect violence in the US. And this bullshit study does not even reflect the real face of violence, it's simply a hit piece to try and make legal gun owners look like psychos ready to snap.
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