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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
irrelevant, unless you wish to paint handguns in a negative light, which the VPC has always tried to do.
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I've read this a few times, and I'm trying to wrap my head around the response. It would be irrelevant, unless the intent is to show how handguns acquired legally are used more often. Well, that was the idea. This is proof that in our system more crimes are committed with legally purchased weapons. That's rather telling, especially speaking as someone who was shot in the calf with a legally owned gun.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
again, irrelevant because it shows that weapons were acquired EITHER WAY, but this is the VPC's effort at showing that most crime guns were obtained via legal owners, therefore legal ownership should be abolished.
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Looking puirely at the statistics, it's clear that more often people are able to get weapons legally to commit crime. It's harder to get a gun illegally. This would suggest, though not conclusively, that if gun ownership were abolished, gun crime could fall off.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
and in 10 or 10 shootings, all were done in a gun free school zone. wonder how that happened? that a gun free school zone was the place of a shooting. boggles the mind.
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Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 was abolished because it was ruled unconstitutional in 1995. It was an attempt to deter by making punishments of offenders in these zones worse. Those assholes who opened fire in a gun free school system were punished more because of that program.
(I'm trying to keep this about education on gun control, instead of this turning into a debate)