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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
According to your post, you misinterpreted my post. Perhaps on purpose.
I don't care what stops bad guys with guns. I care what keeps bad guys from getting guns in the first place. We don't need to stop a bad guy with a gun, if we don't have bad guys with guns.
Humans will never EVER allow that to happen. Ever. We value our weapons too much. Good guys and bad guys both. We are a violent species, we kill our own, sometimes for fun, sometimes for profit, sometimes out of anger, rage, grief - and only very rarely for self-defense.
But if we can make it HARDER for bad guys to have guns, and give bad guys more consequences when they're caught with guns, then just maybe it might convince ONE bad guy to - not use their gun. It'd be a step in the right direction.
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How do you suppose that we keep bad guys from getting guns? Make it against the law for a bad guy to own a gun? Hmmm, seems like that has already been tried and failed. Seems like the "consequences" that you are seeking might result from a "good carrying a gun." Obviously, bad guys do not care about laws or they would not be bad guys. And as long as we have those "little old ladies" that care for the poor unfortunate bad guys that come from broken or poor families, no amount of slaps on the wrists are going to work either.
I keep hearing folks saying "but gun accidents are bad." Yep, they sure are but how many folks get cut by knife accidents, car accidents, over doses of medications, falling down steps, falling on ice, etc?
Perhaps if more "bad guys" were put down by the courts, police and good guys carrying guns, society would be a safer place?