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Originally posted by shrubbery
We're suddenly talking about causes of death?.. I thought we were discussing the necessity of normal citizens to carry a concealed gun. You can bagatalize everything by putting it into a bigger picture.
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That's funny, considering that you conveniently ignored the parts of my reply which dealt with benefits of "normal citizens" (that is technically inaccurate, since people who carry are trained) carrying firearms. If you don't want to discuss it, and instead just lay down some "we don't need guns"-elitist line, suggest that Americans are mindless war-mongering savages, and ignore any sort of rebuttal, you may want to consider whether you should bother posting on this thread in the first place.
The facts are that in the long run availability of guns for personal protection to trained and certified law-abiding citizens
lowers the violent crime rate in any given state where it has been tried. On the other hand, Washington D.C. was the murder capitol of the US while also having the most strict gun control laws in place in the country. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that in the US flimsy gun control laws simply do not work to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals, and in fact only put law-abiding citizens in even more danger of being brutally victimized with little chance of protecting themselves.