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Originally posted by Phaenx
That said, it's fairly objective to look at the results of other countries with strict gun control laws, but that's only if you lack the deductive prowess to understand that criminals just don't care if their gun is legally owned or not. They're criminals after all. If that's so (and it is) then we want the good guys to have as many weapons as they want.
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This is the sort of mentality that had nuclear proliferation raging out of control during the cold war. If we're going to talk about lack of deductive prowess, it should be pointed out that the first sentence I quoted doesn't follow any logical pattern. It reads more like "If A, then bananas are tasty and I like them." Further, you should consider that "the good guys" in this country are comprised very adequately by the police, the military, the national guard, etc. I don't think we need neighborhood militias with Streetsweepers calling themselves good guys these days.