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I don't like private gun ownership. However I do not see myself in your description of anti-gun people.
I observe the following incontestable facts:
1) Some parts of the world allow private gun ownership
2) All parts of the world have violent unbalanced or otherwise unsafe people
3) The people in (2) sometimes get to the point where they deliberately or accidentally hurt or seek to hurt other people
4) In parts of the world that allow private gun ownership more of the people from (2) use guns to do (3) to people
I therefore draw the following conclusions that many pro-gun people chose to argue with (as is there right)
1) If there are more legal guns in private ownership, it will be more easy for criminals to obtain illegal guns
2) If there are more legal guns in private ownership, and therefore more illegal guns held by criminals, there will be a greater chance that someone will be killed or hurt by a gun.
It seems to me totally logical (and more importantly seems to be backed up by crime statistics) that not allowing private gun ownership would lead to a reduction in death by firearms.
It doesn't mean that I think that all gun owners are nutters, it means that i think that there are a number of nutters in the world, and if there are guns out there then the nutters will get them.
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