I edited the first message. And yes a criminal could buy a gun (on the black market). A would be criminal (as in doesn't yet have a criminal record) could also buy a hunting rifle and get it registered.
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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
I will never let stats dictate my ability to survive a shooting.
Go somewhere else with that shit.
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Well a lot of the statistics within the USA show that restrictions on guns actually increase violent crime. But those studies were of Washington... so it might be a special case. One way or another I really don't understand your reasoning. If making guns illegal DID reduce the numbers of shootings wouldn't you take a country where you had less a chance of encountering a shooting, over one where you would have a gun but could certainly still be shot and killed.
It's like... would you refuse to live in Canada if your only other option was Iraq (cited here as the most dangerous country on earth
http://listverse.com/2008/04/08/top-...aces-on-earth/)?