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01-24-04

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Originally Posted by John Preston
You do realize there's no logic to that?

...that's like saying more cars = less accidents
Less cars = more accidents

Yeah...really logical kid
The utter failure in logic is in your part.

A better analogy would be:

more guns = more gun accidents.

THAT would be true. Accidents are a statistical by product spread out through all product ownership.

Crime is completely different. Crime is not an accident, but a purposeful activity, committed by criminals. They are highly motivated to acquire guns, the tools of their trade. Hence gun control does not affect them.

Two points:

1. Not all crime is committed with guns, so immediately your gun->crime connection is weak.

2. A fair amount of crime is STOPPED by guns, in the hands of the law abiding. Remember that gun control takes guns away from the law abiding, hence lowers the crime-stopping activity, hence raises crime. Until you account for that half of the equation, you can not be taken seriously. Sorry to be blunt, but those are the facts.
  
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