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The United States is a new country, and its frontier days occured during the era of firearms. They are part of our culture. The country has millions and millions of guns in the hands of private citizens, for better or worse, and that is never going to change. It is too late for handguns to be effectively controlled in this country. Outlawing them now within certain city limits, San Francisco for example, will not change the fact that thousands and thousands of thugs will walk the streets within that city carrying guns. Only people who have something to lose by getting arrested for an illegal gun (i.e., law-abiding citizens with jobs that require them to stay out of trouble) will obey such a law, and even then some of us will ignore the law in the interest of self-defense.
Banning handguns as a response to gun violence shows a complete lack of understanding of the problem.
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why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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