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I agree with every word Freebase said. No point in arguing with you Lord because it is obvious you have your mind up and only pick the statistics and facts that benifit your agenda of guns being the problem. You listed a bunch of sources in which people hurt people they knew or themselves with guns...I am not arguing that doesnt happen, but it ure hasnt happened to me or anyone I know, and hasnt happened to Freebase.
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Rez, the majority of people who are murdered in this country are murdered by guns and majority of people who are murdered KNEW the person who murdered them.
EconomicPolicyJournal.com: How People Are Murdered in the United States
Saying it hasn't happened to you or anyone you know is irrelevant to the point I am making which is:
The odds are
much greater that you will kill or be killed with a gun in your house than that you will kill an intruder with that gun.
If you buy a gun because you are a hunter, I have no problem with that as long as you lock your guns up when not in use. I know people that disassemble them when they don't use them and that's even better. But buying a gun for protection is questionable because the statistics show you will never use it for that purpose and that if you do fire it in a situation outside your control that situation will be accidental discharge, suicide or murder. Sorry but those are the stats, baby. Ignore them at your own peril.
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Why not punish enforce current laws rather than banning and changing things.
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I only want to ban assault weapons. And I think handguns need to be more rigidly controlled (and, yes, some need to be banned). Hunting rifles and shotguns I have no real beef with. You can't enforce a law that doesn't exist. And you can't punish someone who guns down a bunch of innocent people with an assault weapon and then shoots himself. All that happens is some other unbalanced idiot wants to do the same thing.
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Kids in the house who got your gun...Felonly with heavy sentence. Metally ill or clinically depressed person in house who gets gun? Felony. Stuff like that actually being enforced would go a long way.
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Felony against whom? Take Sandy Hook. They were his mother's guns and he killed her and himself. So who gets punished? Wouldn't it have been better if nobody could have an AR-15? Sure, there still would have been a tragedy but not of this magnitude.
Besides that, Rez, you know they plead down all the time. Killers rarely get what they deserve because they are almost always allowed to plead down. It makes a mockery of the justice system.