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Originally posted by Lebell
[B]People just can't understand that outlawing guns doesn't lead to less crime.
Australia is a great example.
Guns are outlawed and gun crimes have been going up (posted in TFP before, but I'll post again, if necessary).
Now, thugs are carrying swords and knifes.
So the solution is to outlaw them.
Care to guess what the solution will be when they start carrying cricket bats?
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It's interesting that you used the same metaphor that Prince Philip did after the murder of 20 school children in the town of Dunblane by a gun maniac...
Personally, the argument for outlawing certain weapons to me is that they make violence much more easily. Guns, for example, create the possibility of an argunent turning into a murder, and so do swords.
The fact that so much violent crime exists to me is the proof that there is a requirement to disarm the people... people simply must not be allowed to own weaponary. of course, someone who wants to kill will always be able to do it, what you aim to reduce is the instances of people who do not really mean to kill, just to menace or threaten or fight, becoming killers because of the weaponary they use.