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Originally posted by ubertuber
If your position is based on practical considerations, what do you say to the gun-control opponents who argue that legal gun (ownership) controls will leave only law-abiding citizens under control? I would consider harming someone with a gun to be a far more serious legal infraction than ownership of a weapon.
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This is a very good point that has been brought up a few times before, which is exactly why I doubt that it will be responded to in a less-than-hysterical-finger-pointing fashion, if at all.
It simply makes no sense to disarm victims while doing little to discourage criminals from taking advantage of them. I've brought this same point up on other boards, and the only response I can get from it is some nonsense about how so many victims would have their guns used against them. This, of course, is assuming that said gun owner has absolutely no idea how to use their gun, when to use it, or anything about gun safety, but that the assailant is a criminal mastermind.