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Originally posted by gabshu
Don't know if you've seen the crime statistics for DC, we are the nation's crime capital, and it seems that every night you hear on the news that some kid shot other kids outside of a high school.
I've never owned guns and living in DC I feel no need to, but I got an interesting perspective on the issue from a girl from Montana. She said that her family needed to have guns because a bear might come to their backyard and reak havoc. I believe gun control should be localized, and DC should have even more restrictions on owning guns.
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The irony is of course, that the large urban areas with the most gun control (Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago) have the most gun related homicides.
This fact alone indicates to me that the answer is not in yet more regulation but somewhere else.
Gun related violence is simply violence and we need to look at the root cause and quit treating simptoms.