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Originally Posted by knox
The problem is if YOU (or anyone) has the right to own a gun that could potentially hurt ME (or anyone).
The idea that most citizens are sane and balanced enough to have that power in their hands is insane and irresponsible, reason why the US has the highest murder rate in the industrialised world, and the vast majority of them aren't people defending themselves, but people killing each other for stupid reasons.
Reason why they do it? Because they can.
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have you ever personally been threatened by the presence of a gun or are you just shivering from reading google facts? how has guns affected your life?
The whole "but citizens aren't sane and balanced enough to possess guns" is going nowhere. that can be said for anything. I have to drive roads with these very people. We're all sold cars that can get up over 100 MPH, anyone can buy lighters and matches, I can buy rat poison... all of these potentially deadly items that are routinely trusted in hands of americans daily. How does it make you sound to just say.... "I think americans don't posses the sanity to handle firearms, therefore I don't want anyone to have them"? That sounds like a high-schooler's angst. Where do you draw the line? How do you feel about cross-bows? bows & arrows? slingshots?
You love to flaunt the "highest murder rate in the world" stat but you failed to address the aforementioned factors of drug epidemics, poverty, unemployment rates population densities and other factors as the root of the murder stats. If you're shallow enough to just overlook all of those factors in contrast to other industrialized countries, you're issues with guns (as you see them being the culprit) is just a jaded and convenient cop-out to the true factors behind your numbers.