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In reply to the discussion: Waco Shoot Out Gun Confiscation Fantasies [View all]ZX86
(1,428 posts)46. Your argument doesn't make sense.
The ban of dangerous weapons reduces the amount of carnage caused caused by criminals who would break laws such as Prohibition and the selling of street drugs.
Prohibition led directly to the ban on tommy guns. The ban on tommy guns has been in effect for years and is doing great. The type of bloody massacres caused by tommy guns doesn't happen anymore.
The ban of weapons is nothing new and an effective tool against those who commit gun crimes and all other crimes which now includes work place violence and terrorism.
Giving criminals easy access to deadly firepower because they're criminals and they don't obey laws anyway is what is ridiculous in the extreme.
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"You don't make laws depending on whether law breakers will follow them or not."
beevul
Dec 2015
#87
There is no reasoning with folks that think the POTUS is coming fer their guuuuunnsss!
Rex
Dec 2015
#14
I put gun rights in the same category as gay marriage, marijuana legalization, and the first
Kang Colby
Dec 2015
#22
What dis President Obama, or congress, have to do with marijuana legislation?
Snobblevitch
Dec 2015
#28
Man, all this PenisTalk© & "low-hanging fruit" is kinda steaming up the joint!
Eleanors38
Dec 2015
#99
Easy enough to institute in CT & NY. And so far has survived court challenges. Compliance
jmg257
Dec 2015
#32
They pretend liberals are Nazis and will go door to door ransacking house for guns.
librechik
Dec 2015
#42
That sounds like something that would work in Australia, but we are not as smart or
LiberalArkie
Dec 2015
#53
Gun rights organizations have to stoke the fears to keep people paying dues.
hollowdweller
Dec 2015
#57