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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
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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.