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Originally posted by Dramnek_Ulk:
"When guns are outlawed, law abiding people will not have them. Criminals will!"
is not really true as few crimals in britain have guns, those few that do mainly use them on each other. A culture where guns are freely availible means that criminals will get guns to defend themsevles from people who have guns to defend themselves from burglers who have guns to the defend themselves from etc etc etc, its a self fuffiling phrophecy of violence. Also people waveing guns about is exactly the kind of thing anti-captilist protestors want, so they can provoke people and polarise opinons and actions. And its not people with guns who defend your rights its politicians,lawyers and civil rights groups in fact to suggest that guns somehow defend your rights is to make a mockery of politics where deeds are accomplished with words not guns.
[This message has been edited by Dramnek_Ulk (edited 06-16-2001).]
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Well said, Dramnek! It is amazing how people can be so blind to reality when they are defending a 'right'. But we all do it! If we are determined not to 'see' something, nothing will convince us!
We will never convince the gun lobby that they are wrong, and they will likewise never convince us that their stance is other than misguided. Common sense, sadly, does not enter into the equation.
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