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Nuclear Unicorn

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7. Yet somehow we're supposed to believe banning guns will end crime.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #6)

Sun Jun 14, 2015, 05:03 PM

Jun 2015

Criminals do not cease to prey upon people. They will either acquire their weapons illegally or they will move on to other means. Gun bans don't turn violent monsters into sociable kittens because the gun was never the motivator.

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