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Old 12-23-2012, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by l2ridehd View Post
I have to challenge that factoid. Where did this information come from? does it include those held by governments or just the people? There are a lot of quasi dictatorships where the government owns all the guns. And for good reasons. If you look at just those guns owned by the citizens of each country then it may be close. Mainly because so many countries have taken the guns away from their citizens. Makes moving from Democracy to Socialism to Communism to dictatorship much more easy for the government.

The main reason our constitution provides for the right to bear arms is to protect the people from a government gone out of control, not from each other.
Well if that is the reasoning behind the second ... You already lost. It has since become another chip in the NRAs ability to make even more money for the gun industry.

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