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if tighter gun control laws don't actually reduce the murder rate, then why are we being stampeded toward such laws after every shooting that gets media attention?
Have the media outlets that you follow ever even mentioned that
some studies have produced evidence that murder rates tend to be higher
in places with tight gun control laws?
The dirty little secret is that gun control laws do not actually
control guns. They disarm law-abiding citizens, making them more
vulnerable to criminals, who remain armed in disregard of such laws...gun control has become one of those fact-free crusades, based on assumptions, emotions, and rhetoric.
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What almost no one talks about is that guns are used to defend
lives as well as to take lives. In fact, many of the horrific killings
that we see in the media were brought to an end when someone else with a
gun showed up and put a stop to the slaughter...
Many people who have never fired a gun in their lives, and never
faced life-threatening dangers, nevertheless feel qualified to impose
legal restrictions that can be fatal to others. And politicians eager to
"do something" that gets them publicity know that the votes of the
ignorant and the gullible are still votes...Restricting the magazine capacity available to law-abiding citizens will
not restrict the magazine capacity of people who are not law-abiding
citizens. Such restrictions just mean that the law-abiding citizen is
likely to run out of ammunition first...Some people may think that "assault weapons" means automatic weapons.
But automatic weapons were banned decades ago. Banning ugly-looking
"assault weapons" may have aesthetic benefits, but it does not reduce
the dangers to human life in the slightest. You are just as dead when
killed by a very plain-looking gun...
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