[quote]Originally posted by Morgan_Corbesant:
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Originally posted by Night Stalker:
ive said it before, and i'll say it again. if you stop GOOD Americans from having guns, the only ones that would have them are the BAD Americans. drugs are illegal, yet people can get them pretty much anywhere. some guns are illegal, yet people own them.
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This is EXACTLY why I'm against any kind of firearms prohibition. You can look at the history of ANY particular country with regards to violence and legal possession of any kind of weapon and EASILY see that the law abiding citizens aren't the problem.
Does anybody _really_ believe that disarming the law abiding people actually achieves a desirable goal?
Self-defence is a RIGHT, and disarming people seriously cuts into that right; especially when all the criminals just laugh at the law and arm themselves anyways.
I read a study recently about two different jurisdictions in the US; one of these jurisdictions had the highest murder rate in North America - it also had the most strict gun laws in all of North America. The other jurisdiction (that just happened to be across a state border) had much easier access to firearms - it also had the LOWEST murder rate in the US (if not all of NA).
(Some of you might guess the first one mentioned is Washington D.C.)