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Originally Posted by allaboutmusic
I'm glad there is gun control here in the UK. The violent crime that we do get (largely from young idiotic louts) would be much worse if the perpetrators had easy access to guns.
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I agree. I just look at the joys of problems Toronto is having with illegal firearms coming up from the States. Really it's not fair. Our gangs trade our drugs for their guns. They get good pot, we get our people shot at.
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
We have and it's fallen on deaf ears. Mainly because 'it's insane to give anyone a gun'....
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Bold is my edit.
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Originally Posted by punkmusicfan21
Perhaps it's the Atlantic Canadian in me but I'm terrified when I read this. It makes me literally scared shitless that people feel the need to "practice" at a local range in case they need to defend themselves.
I'm also really confused with the idea of defense via gun power being a tool for freedom. Maybe it's just me and my crazy socialist logic, but aren't there less... deathy ways of resolving conflict. I don't understand the whole "I'll shoot him before he shoots me" mentality. Seems to just breed this idea that everyone is after everyone, so you might as well say "fuck everyone else, because they are going to fuck me anyways". It's all a little melodramatic to me.
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Damn our crazy socialist ideas that want to keep things that are designed to kill other people out of the hands of the public.
It's like the old argument that if you make owning a gun a crime then only criminals will have the guns... umm well yeah and I'm okay with that. It just means one more crime to charge them with.
To me there should only be three groups of people that have guns. 1) Criminals, 2) the Police, 3) the Military. The second two being necessary evils at best and hopefully last resorts.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Some people think that killing is morally acceptable when it's in defense, punk. It's something I suspect you nor I will ever agree with.
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Agreed.