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Fumesucker

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11. Rich people don't shoot each other as much so them having guns is not as risky

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Sun Jun 12, 2016, 11:54 PM

Jun 2016

If we can only get the guns away from those violent poor people things will get better.

There's more than one way to view every problem, and every solution.

Your solution just screams "classism" to me.

From a personal point of view it wouldn't affect me at all to have a total ban on all firearms, I'm not interested in guns and haven't been in a long time.

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Gun control doesn't need to be 100% or even 50% effective to be a good thing [View all] Recursion Jun 2016 OP

Yeap, a gumper strawman is usually " that wouldn't stop ALL the killings.." and then somehow reject uponit7771 Jun 2016 #1

That's not what I see Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #2

Exactly. Take a registry for example. linuxman Jun 2016 #8

Do I remember correctly that Canada discontinued the long gun registry as expensive and ineffective? Marengo Jun 2016 #3

Last I heard they're talking about it. I wouldn't personally bother with long guns either Recursion Jun 2016 #4

There is no longer anyway to stop there nuts from shooting sprees. Logical Jun 2016 #5

I mean, in a word: no, there's not. And that's not the gun problem we have. Recursion Jun 2016 #7

The suicide rate wouldn't change lancer78 Jun 2016 #12

Well constructed thoughtful post Dem2 Jun 2016 #6

We already have gun control Bengi Jun 2016 #9

I disagree lancer78 Jun 2016 #13

All that might work somewhere that doesn't have the US Constitution. pipoman Jun 2016 #10

Rich people don't shoot each other as much so them having guns is not as risky Fumesucker Jun 2016 #11