Jinn

Well, mostly neutral. I know plenty of women (and a few men) who couldn't wield a rifle or heavy shotgun effectively, nor move the slide on heavier pistols.

But in essence, sure.

And Shani: the biggest argument used by anti-gun control supporters is the slippery slope argument.

If they ban "assault" guns because they look too dangerous, how long before they ban rifles altogether? And then what's to stop them from banning shotguns? Or handguns?

If they're excluding felons, drug users and mentally handicapped individuals, that's fine. But what other requirements are they going to add? Are they eventually going to add so many requirements that I, as a law abiding citizen, can't buy a gun?

etc, etc.

Gun control eventually does boil down to the cliche of "guns dont kill people, people kill people."

If you can decide whether you believe that the volume and accessibility of guns is responsible for gun related crimes, then you're probably pro gun control. If you believe that it is the persons wielding the guns (rather than the guns themselves) that are responsible for gun related crimes, then you're probably anti gun control.

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