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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProhibition works! How many drug users have you ever heard of?
The war against drugs has clearly shown that by placing a ban on the sale or possession of guns, we can seriously reduce gun violence. When guns are illegal, people either stop owning or selling guns, or the police take them to jail.
It's just so simple. Why don't people get that?
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Prohibition works! How many drug users have you ever heard of? (Original Post)
FrodosPet
Jun 2016
OP
I love the "let's have no laws because some will break them anyway" theory. People commit murder, e
uppityperson
Jun 2016
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)1. I love the "let's have no laws because some will break them anyway" theory. People commit murder, e
though it's illegal, so let's get rid of that law too!!!!111
mikeysnot
(4,756 posts)2. Yes, because doing NOTHING is...
working so well for us.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)3. I wonder what the addiction rate of guns is compared to drugs...
may be closer then we imagine.
AirmensMom
(14,642 posts)4. Ask Australia. n/t
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)5. How many mass shootings in the UK in the last two decades? (nt)
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)6. Like 1 or 2 at the most IIRC.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)7. ...